It’s likely that Vermont farmers had three mowings this year, maybe four. This was a field about a week before a hard frost set in.
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From the category archives:
October
The water at Cedar Lake is still warm enough for swimming, and I joined a few other souls there this past week – a couple of times actually – the first for me this year. In the next few weeks, these leaves will be falling, and the smell of wood smoke will be wafting over from a nearby camp – signs the season is drawing to a close.
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An end of the day photo taken in the early 80’s, when I spent six weeks working at Shelburne Orchards in MA. It looks like we were picking Red Delicious at the time, though MacIntosh was probably the largest variety by volume. Some of the tools of the trade are at the top: the kidney-shaped picking bag, and a big jug of water, replenished regularly through the day, particularly when it was warm and sunny.
The photo was probably taken with the aforementioned (9/12/18 post) Sigma 18-200mm telephoto lens – see the curved side of the bin? It was truly wonderful but hard work, and in retrospect, i can say the wages were but the icing on the cake.
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Nice to see this Tricolored Taegeuk on the side of an old Yankee barn, deep in the heart of VT. It’s probably Korean, but derived from the earlier yin/yang symbol that has its origins in China and Taoism. The yellow, red and blue lobes (“pa” in Korean) represent humanity, earth and heaven respectively (which kinda covers it, no?).
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