The pinks and purples of the late blooming asters are adding to the range of autumn colors.
Range of Autumn Color
There are many creative farmers who can put together various pieces to make useful equipment like this ‘sort of tractor’ vehicle which has the front end of what appears to be a 1922 REO automobile with the rear end having tractor rear tires. The REO Motor Car Company was a Lansing, Michigan based company that produced automobiles and trucks from 1905 to 1975. (And as a side note to western movie fans, in the John Wayne movie Big Jake, the Texas Rangers were traveling in replica REOs, which were later destroyed by the bandits.)
Unique Vehicle
In the time period when farmers hauled their grain to the grinding mill by horse and wagon, they would often spend the entire day in town, or where the mill was located, as they waited for their flour or feed to be ground. Since many mills were powered by water, part of the day might have been spent fishing as well as doing other shopping.
A Day at the Mill
I imagine, with a few nice, sunny days, there might be some fishermen trying their luck before the snow moves in. The Brule River in northern Wisconsin is a popular and an exceptional fly fishing stream and there were fishermen there yesterday catching Steelheads and Brown Trout along the forty-four mile river. The Brule River contains resident brook trout, brown trout and rainbow trout. Lake run brown trout and rainbow (steelhead) trout along with Coho and Chinook salmon migrate up the Bois Brule River annually from Lake Superior for fly fishing anglers to pursue.
The Brule River
The area called Bears Grass near Augusta, WI, required a lot of brush clearing and tilling to become productive farm land when the first pioneers settled the area in 1855. As more settlers arrived, the St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church was built in 1893.
Slightly over a hundred years later, the church was de-sanctified in 1996 because of declining church attendance and the need for extensive maintenance and repairs. It is now a private residence.
Church Faded into History