Haying!

In the latter part of June haying began, and with the intermittent rains and slow-drying muggy days, it covered a good two weeks of mowing, raking, (often re-raking after a rain,) and baling. Once these were accomplished, by bits and pieces as the fields dictated, the bales needed to be hauled off.
Mom got this shot of the summertime sky on one of her trips to and from the field. Rather iconic...


















And here you can see the 'work-place'. You can almost feel the coolness that that cloud shadow brings... and the sky is picture perfect summer time!
It gets pretty hot in the middle of the day... but you can't beat the view...


Haying is one of the major milestones of a country summer, a huge expenditure of effort that, mercifully, is over as soon as you've finished. Unlike, I suppose, most things on the farm, which are more slow and gradual progressions where 'finished' is a lot harder to define.