The corn fields around the area and all in different stages depending when the farmers were able to get into the fields during the usually wet spring.
Corn Hoping for a Late Freeze
Picture of the Day for September 4, 2013
A retrospective look of farming when oat bundles were loaded onto wagons from the oak shocks in the field and hauled to the grain thresher. The one on top can’t be scared of heights as they drive the horse drawn wagon standing up across rough fields.
Loading Oat Bundles
Picture of the Day for September 3, 2013
This old dead tree looks like there is a critter head coming out of the top of the tree.
Critter Tree
Picture of the Day for September 2, 2013
Labor Day was first celebrated in the United States in 1882, dedicated to the achievements of American workers. It serves as an annual tribute to American workers’ contributions to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of the United States. The first Labor Day celebration was held on September 5, 1882 in New York City, including a parade and picnic. On June 28, 1894, Congress declared Labor Day a federal holiday designating the first Monday in September as Labor Day.
Labor Day usually still meant work for farmers as the cows still needed to be milked and if the weather was good, field work was done and this time of the year, in the past it may have been threshing oats by throwing bundles of oat stalks on a conveyor belt that fed the bundles into the thresher which separated the grain from the stalks.
Laboring on Labor Day
Picture of the Day for September 1, 2013
Another lazy Sunday afternoon watching the clouds going by even if small like popcorn kernels.
Popcorn Clouds
Picture of the Day for August 31, 2013
The Last Rose of Summer is a poem by Irish poet Thomas Moore in 1805 while at Jenkinstown Park in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Moore’s poem starts out ” ‘Tis the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions, Are faded and gone;” and this the wild rose has long faded and is gone from sight.
Wild roses bloom from June through late summer. The petals come in varying shades of pink, with yellow stamens decorating the flower’s center. The rose has been around for about 35 million years and grows naturally throughout North America. The petals and rose hips are edible and have been used in medicines since ancient times.
The Last Wild Rose of Summer
Picture of the Day for August 30, 2013
A bit of sagging and warping in the old boards and even a few boards missing here and there, but the old barn is still standing proud.
Proud Barn
Picture of the Day for August 29, 2013
This old building looks worn and weathered just like everything else that is withering in the long stretch of heat. With the doors and windows in front, this might have been some kind of store. I wonder how many people passed through its doors to make purchases.
Old Building
Picture of the Day for August 28, 2013
By adding some children and water, this scene could be a great subject for a Norman Rockwell painting.
Hydrant Dog
Picture of the Day for August 27, 2013
With another hot, scorching day, all I can think of is the western movies with the desert scenes and the vultures waiting for the next victim.
The Skull
