Upde Designs

I know that some of you enjoy farm scenes and if that is the case then these next few weeks will be a treat for you.  I also love this time of the year.  The harvest season.  It always brings back wonderful memories of my childhood and the harvest time in the small community where I lived.

I grew up in a small town in Missouri of only 450 people.  We were very poor (but I guess I really didn’t know it.)  I delivered the St. Joseph, Mo., newspaper starting at the age of 10, so I knew everyone in the town and they of course knew me (which could be a bad thing at times.)  Anyway since the town was like a big farm itself we all pulled together at harvest time to make sure the farmers all got their crops in.

My Dad was a mechanic and had a small engine repair garage.   He would repair farm machinery, weld broken parts, and fix cobbled up engines so the farmers could get their crops out.  Most of the time the farmers couldn’t pay him, which meant we were very poor most of the time.  I can remember so many times when I would be at the garage my Dad would say, “Just pay me when you can.”  Many times the farmers would share their harvest bounty with my parents because my Dad had helped them by keeping their equipment working.  One farmer always gave us a big supply of beef  when he would butcher, because he owed Dad so much.

After the harvest our church would hold a big Lord’s Acre Sale.  The local farmers would give some of their harvest to the church (in lieu of money) and many of the farm wives would cook a huge lunch for the folks and charge a modest price, which was then donated to the church.  Boy do I remember those meals.  🙂

Anyway sorry to get so far off the path just to tell you that I love this time of year.  Although I will say that yesterday was way too hot for late September.  One of the side things I do for my company is take images for marketing and other materials.  Yesterday I did a photo shoot for a new employee that just started with the company and they  needed a quality image of him for our marketing efforts.

It takes a fair amount of effort to get the lights and background set up for a good shot and the bank had their air conditioning set a little warmer than I like it. So with all the activity of setting up the lights and concern for doing a good job it was way to HOT for me.  I perspired. ~ verb [ no obj. ]
give out sweat through the pores of the skin as the result of heat, physical exertion, or stress: Will was perspiring heavily. 🙂

I shot these harvest images on the way back to Maquoketa yesterday evening.  There were lots of combines in the field and lots of crop yet to be harvested.  More to come.  Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy your middle of the week and be careful.