❤ ALSO SHE’S HOME! She just got home yesterday and it is wonderful to have her back. But the wonderful thing is, at least we don’t have to make food for ourselves because our church family has been bringing us meals since Mom’s heart surgery. XD Usually it’s a sandwich, chips, apples, and some dessert, which the boys seem to like. Megan and I have nearly exhausted our repertoire of lunch ideas. We’ve been making the boys a LOT of packed lunches and suppers so the boys can get all the fieldwork in that they can before it rains. I drove back here on the four-wheeler one night after bringing Jeff supper and had to come back for pictures because 1) I forgot how marvelous it is to drive a four-wheeler really fast on a beautiful day, and 2) I’d never been all the way back in this gorgeous field we rent and I loved it! □īuuut whether you know what kind they are or not, a field of bales looks so beautiful and peaceful, doesn’t it? Most good hay is greenish and good straw is golden brown, so that’s one way to tell them apart. Hay is for feeding and straw is for bedding, mulching, etc. □ Mini farm lesson: straw is the stem (like the stem of mature wheat), and hay is kind of like long mown grass, so it has the leaf or blade in there. And yes, hay and straw are two different things. The lighting was one reason I loved that shoot so much, so the same for this one!īack to straw again. I think I might have taken these the same day I did the photoshoot of Carmen and Nellie. This is one time of day that dust looks beautiful, right? □ Sometimes they need to spread it out thin again to dry faster before they bale it. □ First, they cut the hay and make it into long “windrows,” like below. I talk about how Dad and the boys bale a field more in this post, but I shall review a bit. If we do that straight from the field, we don’t have to take the extra step of rebaling the big, round bales you usually see. This is Dad’s baling setup, a more complicated one than usual because we’re making big cubes composed of 21 small square bales. I think this shed looks aesthetic with the cedar trees and hay windrows around it. I just loved the huge tree (again) in the background! Here’s one I took recently when the boys were baling straw. I’m going to mix up the pictures taken from a couple different days. Can you see why I took so many pictures this evening? The dust made for perfect sun rays through this big tree and ahh, it looked incredible. I didn’t really organize these pictures in any particular way, so here we are, starting with one of my favorites. □ Enjoy some peaceful fields, sunrays, and a little bit of farm trivia! □ Let’s do this. Harvesting is one of the most interesting parts of farm work to watch, I think, and it’s also one of the most beautiful to photograph… particularly when you’re taking pictures during golden hour. Despite all the nature pictures I take, I don’t often make a post about field work or farm life like this for some reason. It’s baling season right now, so my dad and brothers are out pretty much nonstop during the day, cutting and baling and putting away the hay and straw we will sell later.
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