I just love this time of year watching the colors change, the farmers harvesting their crops and dodging all the deer. Okay that last part about the deer was a bit of a stretch.
Anyway I was on my way to work this morning and was about 10 minutes earlier than normal and the light was just beautiful. Soft and orange. I drove by this lonely combine sitting in a half harvested field and thought that would make a great image (even though I’ve already made one like it last week.) And no they are not the same combine. They are both John Deere combines but two different fields 20 miles apart.
So it took me two miles before I made up my mind to go back and take a picture and so I turned around and drove past the perfect turn around, then I had to drive another half mile for the next turn around.
Got the car parked and walked about 400 yards down to where the combine was sitting. Why did I park so far away? I don’t know (brain freeze maybe?) Anyway I took the shot and I like it so there it is for you to enjoy or yawn at. 🙂
This is my friend Bob Hanna. Bob owns and operates a service business called PRIME Benefits, Inc. Prime is located in Cedar Rapids and handles a variety of benefit plan designs, section 125 & 105 payment plans etc.
Bob is a great guy and has been a great friend. We had lunch today at the Irish Democrat. We discussed politics just about the whole time. 🙂
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Whether you know it or not, you have found a common thread with the two pictures of old combines in different locations. My observation is that, the farmers still using these types of older combines will not be the first ones to complete their harvest. They are the older farmers with smaller operations who have always been conservative with their machinery purchases and can make a combine last many years longer than today’s larger, more modern operations. I tend to think they are also happier in doing things the way they have always done them and do not worry about being the biggest operation in their neighborhood with all the fancy GPS-driven monster machines they make today. They are the salt-of-the-earth people who made farming a respectible way of life. They are stewards of the land. They do not worry about keeping up with the Joneses. My kind of people, living a simpler, less complicated lifestyle. Like many of my ancestors. In many ways I envy them and the pace with which they live life. We all need to slow down sometimes. Thanks for sharing the pictures.
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Great comment Tom. You are absolutely correct in that they were smaller farms and were doing a little at a time. I am just really drawn to making images of combines and barns. Don’t know why but I just keep looking for more. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by.
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