Day 3 of "30 Days of Farm Kid Stories"
I didn’t take many farm photographs this year. The crops look rough. It feels scorching outside. Who wants to remember this?
I didn’t take many farm photographs this year. The crops look rough. It feels scorching outside. Who wants to remember this?
I hold a bunch of excuses.
If I think about it more, even in a drought year our heartland provides. Our late-planted soybeans made a good yield, and lines of wheat shoots emerge this week from fields.
Author Diane Siebert tells her story from the voice of the heartland. Her book Heartland is a steady tale of beauty, work and struggle.
“The farmer, with his spirit strong;
The farmer, working hard and long,
A feed-and-seed-store cap in place,
Pulled down to shield a weathered face-
A face whose every crease and line
Can tell a tale, and help define
A lifetime spend beneath the sun,
A life of work that’s never done”
The farmer, working hard and long,
A feed-and-seed-store cap in place,
Pulled down to shield a weathered face-
A face whose every crease and line
Can tell a tale, and help define
A lifetime spend beneath the sun,
A life of work that’s never done”
Wendell Minor creates artwork out of the scenes you and I see as we drive down a country road. Paintings rich in browns, oranges and greens.
Roads, fields and fence rows farmers’ travel showcase the charm of America’s Midwest. It’s the kind of artwork I stand and look up at… and just think about (like a visitor to a museum.)
Art can make you do that… leave you speechless enjoying the detail and feelings brought to a canvas. Or brought to a children’s farm book.
G will especially enjoy pages 21 and 22 where his favorite breed of cattle graze in a lush, green pasture. When reading I point out the Polled Hereford that gazes at the reader from the far left book page.
The green machine of iron on pages 5 and 6, prompts G to say “Tractee” with a grin. He sort-of likes tractors, if you haven’t noticed.
What is your favorite scene from the heartland?
Lauren
My Library List:
Day 1: One Moment
Day 2: Perfect Pizza
Day 3:
Day 4:
And so on
Our blogging host Holly Spangler writes “30 Days on a Prairie Farm” this month on her blog: My Generation.
It’s a group party, of sorts! Please join fellow bloggers as they tell their agricultural stories:
My Library List:
Day 1: One Moment
Day 2: Perfect Pizza
Day 3:
Day 4:
And so on
It’s a group party, of sorts! Please join fellow bloggers as they tell their agricultural stories:
Beyer Beware: 30 Days, 30 Things You Never Knew About Food
Black Ink: Beef's a Trip - 30 Days from Gate to Plate
Confessions of a Farm Wife: Life on our Farm
Go Beyond the Barn: 30 Days of Farm Life Blessings
Kelly McCormick Photography: 30 Days of Thankfulness
Le Jardin da ma Vie: 30 Reasons Why I Love Being a Farmer's Wife
Pinke Post: 30 Days of a North Dakota November
Rural Route 2: 30 Days of the Not-So-Glamorous Life of This Farm Wife
Black Ink: Beef's a Trip - 30 Days from Gate to Plate
Confessions of a Farm Wife: Life on our Farm
Go Beyond the Barn: 30 Days of Farm Life Blessings
Kelly McCormick Photography: 30 Days of Thankfulness
Le Jardin da ma Vie: 30 Reasons Why I Love Being a Farmer's Wife
Pinke Post: 30 Days of a North Dakota November
Rural Route 2: 30 Days of the Not-So-Glamorous Life of This Farm Wife
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