mid June -- tractor time, with day lilies

post #494
          Longtime visitors to my blog know I'm regularly entranced by hay rows and hay bales and golden fields and all patterns pertaining to this time of year. The weather has cooperated for this year's annual ritual. For example, we're currently enjoying a long and mostly dry spell after a cool, often rainy growing season.  
         Sadly I can't spend all my time hunting up evidence of all this, and I hadn't planned to put a single field on my blog this June, but here I am, not quite true to my good intentions. During an evening walk from home, I discovered the first field had already been mowed, baled, and cleared, which I hadn't known even though I kind of live across the road.

looking from one field into another,

looking NE from that same spot -- the same opening at the far end can be found in the next photo as well

The next night, I walked from one end of the field to this edge along the road, since the field had been mowed that day, but not yet baled.  (I came home with only a single deer tick!)

along the way, that day

     Then there are my current tractor adventures... A great guy mows my field twice a year, and he showed up several days ago. His tractor is huge, and my open area is not that large, but he makes it work. Except this day there was more moister mud along the pond, and the tractor totally unexpectedly got stuck, with one of the eight wheels in the pond. Very interesting.  A friend of his with a proper winch on his big truck came over, and they pulled the tractor up and out!  Pretty exciting for me during these days of being #HealthyatHome where "nothing happens". Even the red-winged blackbirds currently brooding in my pond seemed to survive the excitement.

I don't know whose tractors these are, but they were riding by when I went down to get the mail yesterday,

I even got to make a trip to the nearby Kubota Dealer yesterday where they had hand sanitizer and social distancing in the showroom/office! I've had such an adventurous week.

 

I want to end with these day lilies, which come up every year no matter how hard I manage to ignore their progress. I made these three photos this afternoon. 

I've decided I'll take next Sunday off from the blog since I am finally having my first cataract surgery -- electives are now allowed in our local hospital -- on Wednesday.  My eyes might not be on the same page, so to speak, next weekend. I can't wait to see what this blog looks like once both eyes are done!

 

This photo features tomorrow's blooms! Imagination time!

       For this post, I've been trying to stay off politics and all the terrible stuff, but my heart hurts. I wish everyone could have some beauty in their lives, or at least maybe find some here in my fields and flowers and the sky above.  Be safe.  Thank you for sharing tonight's small offering.