Harvest's End

Harvest has come to an end around here.  The neighbor farmers packed up their combines and trucks and pulled out of our driveway yesterday afternoon.  All around the community we see other combines and trucks heading back to their shops to get cleaned up and put away for the year.  The fields are filled with yellow stubble - kind of like a crew-cut haircut for the Palouse.  Next we will be seeing the tractors coming out to plow the fields and plant the winter wheat.  It's a busy time of year for the farmers around here.

This year one of the farmers that owns the acreage behind our place hired Keaton to work for him during harvest.  Keaton got to be a rock picker.  It was his job to go out and pick the big rocks off the road every day to make sure the equipment didn't have any flat tires.  I think he kind of enjoyed doing it, although it was dusty work.

It's certainly a harbinger of fall now that the wheat is gone.  We have to settle in to the 'drab' days of autumn and winter.  Lots of brown, brown, brown - at least until the winter wheat shoots it's little heads up out of the ground.  Then we usually get snow, depending on the winter.  I will look forward to spring green again.