If you look at the satellite map (left) you will see the elderly farmer has three crops
between his driveway and Bluebird Treeline. They are labelled Fields #7, #6, and
an unlabeled strip right next to the treeline. Here the farmer is working the unlabelled
strip, which is hay.
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The steps to making hay are cutting followed by partial drying, windrowing followed by further drying,
and baling or stacking. This operation is windrowing - raking the hay into long lines.
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Here are the soybeans in Field #5 - only a hint of green remains in a few patches.
If you look at the trees, you will see a hint of color change.
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The geese are still in families but are forming into bigger and bigger groups.
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Showy milkweed pods.
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I think this is a Cessna.
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Field #9.
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This Minnesota Air National Guard C-130 Hercules flies over Mile Drive.
Using its aft loading ramp and door the C-130 can accommodate a
wide variety of oversized cargo, including everything from utility
helicopters and six-wheeled armored vehicles to standard palletized
cargo and military personnel. In an aerial delivery role, it can airdrop
loads up to 42,000 pounds or use its high-flotation landing gear to land
and deliver cargo on rough, dirt strips.
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A float plane that only lands on lakes.
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The driveway to the east farm.
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Early fall creeps up on the west farm.
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I believe this is Arrow-Leaved Aster (Aster sagittifolius).
The Arrow-Leaved Aster flower is composed of many rays. The flowers are
regular flowers and a there are usually a lot of them on each plant.
Aster: from the Greek aster, "a star," describing the radiate heads of the flowers
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Soybeans mature at different rates near the West Farm.
All buildings except garage destroyed 2007
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Smooth Sumac (Anacardiaceae Rhus glabra) is native in the upper midwest.
We are in the western extent of its range. This is part of the foliage in front
of the West Farm.
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If you enlarge the rightmost picture (opposite) of the soybeans in Field #4 here and there you can
make out large weeds. This farmer has put down weed killer, and his field is nearly
100% soybeans. Yet when he harvests he will still get some weed seeds mixed in with
his harvest.
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More Jerusalem artichoke.
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The leaves of Twin Oaks are starting to change color.
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