Day by day, growth is seldom noticed.Growth is gradual. Silent and slow. Invisible as it inches upward.There’s not much to measure…until there is. Fields of wheat offer a fisted bouquet of metaphors.So much symbolism set forth among seeds.Preparation and planting, toil and soil, waiting and hoping, gathering and reaping. And somewhere in the process, the […]
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Stopping By Fields On a Harvest Afternoon
*my apologies to Robert Frost Whose fields these are I think I know.His house sits there across the road.And we are in the combine here.To watch it cut row after row. We knew that harvest hovered near The cycle of another year. With sweeping fields of golden grainAnd cloudless skies all blue and clear. The tractor trundles […]
Of Wheatfields and Praise and Harvest 2018
Every year when harvest is finished, the last acre cut, last bushel deposited in the truck to head to town, my heart wells thankfulness and at some point my tongue gives voice to a favorite old hymn of mine. “The God of harvest praise, In loud thanksgiving raise, Hand, Heart and Voice………” Harvest is […]
A Thanksgiving Harvest
I watch the smoke spiral up from the sweet corn stalks and general garden tangle and I confess my first reaction is “glad-to-see-that-mess go” followed quickly by “no-garden-next-year” all played in sour tones and trebles. Then, I pause, a bit ashamed. Yes. That garden did become a big tangled, overgrown mess. It made me feel […]
Harvest From The Grain Cart’s Perspective Video and A Few ABC’s for July Farming
A few ABC’s for these July days of farm and fieldwork…. • Acres • Blue sky and blades • Certain son • Deere and disk • Earth turned over • Field and farm • GPS and ground worked • Heat • Ice cold Tea • Job to do • KREJ radio • Life […]
Ten Things That Shout of Harvest
1. the rustling, rustling of the swaying golden wheat 2. the combine lumbering across the field, turning into the next swath, header lowered and ready to gobble up the grain 3. tractor and grain cart circling back and forth between combines and trucks 4. hot, hot temps beating down and reflecting off the stubble left […]
On Harvest
This morning I can almost twist the atmosphere in my hands and wring it right out like a dishrag. The heat and humidity press in around me leaving me feeling quite similar to a rather limp dishrag. To the north, the evening brings us a building storm and streaks of lightning punctuate the landscape. No […]
Waiting For Harvest
Waiting for harvest, Waiting this year, Wheat growing golden, Time’s drawing near. Listen? You hear it? Rustling stalks. Waiting for harvest, Wheat fields, they talk. They whisper “It’s coming. Coming quite soon.” Grain is a’drying. Stalks playing their tune. Dancing and waving and waiting too, Waiting for harvest, Skies are so blue. Wheat seed we planted, […]
Soybean Harvest 2016
Busy time. Busy place. The field. When a crop has matured and filled and the grain is dry and the plant is too; it is time. Time to pluck up what has been planted. There’s a certain amount of pressure. Work. Work hard. Work well. Work safely. Throw in a dash of haste…but not too […]
In Which a Vine Grows and Gourds are Harvested
Once upon a time in a sandy Kansas garden, some pumpkin and some gourd seeds were placed gently in the ground and the seeds sprouted and the plants and vines grew green against the dusky dirt. But the deer didn’t know the plants weren’t for them and the bunnies crept close and the leaves were […]
Harvest Begins
We started cutting wheat Monday evening. My farmer man cut a sample and I carted it off to the elevator to find out the moisture on it. It came back with flying colors. 11.9% Our friend that works at the elevator said, “Tell him, he’d better get to cutting!” The grain was dry, but […]
It’s Harvest
More wheat harvest. It’s such a big part of our lives. It’s harried and hurried in ways. There’s a sense of pressure to harvest the ripe crop before heavy rains or hail decide to show up. It’s beautiful. It’s tiring. It’s heartland of America. It’s blessing. It’s awe-inspiring. Those fields of grain producing from […]
The Kind of Pictures You Really Don’t Want During Harvest
We were headed to the field with supper on a Friday evening during harvest. I remembered that I’d forgotten silverware and being a considerate person and assuming the partakers of said harvest meal might prefer to have a spoon to use, rather than their fingers to eat potatoes and corn with, I swung into my in-laws’ […]
From The Harvest Field
We loaded up supper on Saturday evening and we loaded up ourselves and my daughter ended up in the driver’s seat. And I said, “If you’re going to drive, I’m going to eat on the way there.” We backed out of the garage and we drove down the lane and turned onto our dirt […]
Harvest 2015 Begins
We’ve been ready to get this harvest started! We’re glad for the rain we’ve had, but we’re ready to cut wheat. The grain hasn’t wanted to dry down and we’ve had damp mornings. I got up this morning and looked out and it looked like Ohio! Gray, foggy, damp, humid. Not a bit […]
Harvest Apple Cake
This cake has long been a favorite recipe of mine. I’ve made it for a lot of years and don’t even remember when I first made it. I find myself pulling out the recipe every autumn and at other times of the year too! When I have extra apples, I chop up enough for this […]
The Wheat Harvest Continues
Continuing to cut as the weather and rain and mud allows! Each acre is another acre done! Life on our farm. Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2014
