Author: danrouth

Greensboro, NC based commercial and editorial photographer.

Working Land

Agriculture, Farm, Tractor, Work

Justin Sparks from Wilkes County and a coworker were in our neighborhood this week preparing land. They are on contract with a local dairy to produce silage for cattle feed. They were using some special equipment and while they were tilling the land they were also incorporating barley seed that had been broadcast on the fields. The barley will be a cover crop that will provide green fertilizer for next year’s corn. It’s interesting to see ways farmers are working to be more efficient. It’s pretty cool riding around in the cab of a eight wheel, 450 hp tractor as well.

(Photographs copyright 2011 by Dan Routh)

North Carolina Mountain Color

Landscape, North Carolina, Travel
(Photograph copyright 2011 by Dan Routh)
October is a month of change in North Carolina. Starting in the mountains and moving east, Mother Nature makes the transition from summer to winter with her brilliant displays of color. I think this is my favorite time of year, although I do dread to see the cold and gray of winter coming. This image is of Yellowstone Falls, just off the Blue Ridge Parkway near Waynesville. It’s located in the Black Balsam/Graveyard Fields area of Pisgah National Forest, one of the wildest and most beautiful spots in the Blue Ridge.
For info on the Blue Ridge Parkway, go to: http://www.nps.gov/blri/