A young neighbor of mine baling hay near my home in Randolph County, North Carolina.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Category: Farm
Behind the Plow
Images from a recent horse and mule drawn plow event in Caldwell County, North Carolina.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Okra and Tomatoes
A mess of okra and a bunch of tomatoes from an afternoon swing through the garden. On to the kitchen.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Eggs Revisited
(Photograph copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
At the risk of being redundant in my blog, I am posting another image of guinea eggs from our farm. This blog is really a visual compilation of what I do both professionally and personally so redundancy is part of the equation. Photography and farming can be quite the same. On the farm things run in seasons, each year we plant and harvest the same ground and we watch the same herd of cows have babies and grow. We produce the same crops and we have the same daily chores. In photography, I often see the same subjects over and over. Do I not shoot something because I already have a photograph of it? Of course not. I try to shoot things that are visually interesting no matter how many times I’ve shot them before. Even though it’s the same subject, I hope to produce a unique image or to improve on a previous one. And, the guineas went to the trouble of laying all these eggs and hiding them, so, the least I can do is shoot them when I find them.
Tiger Swallowtail
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The caterpillars we had in our yard in Grays Chapel, North Carolina have completed their transformation. A Tiger Swallowtail works the bloom of a butterfly bush.
6:30 AM
(Photograph copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Temperatures are pushing 100 already in North Carolina, and the beans are coming in. The best time to pick them is early in the morning before the heat of the day sets in. My wife was out yesterday at 6:30 in our garden in Grays Chapel. Above is a view of her picking bowl. Sure hope the family remembers her hard work this winter as we enjoy the jars she is producing.
Wild Blackberry Cobbler
Saturday my wife Dedra and my daughter-in-law Christine took part in an annual ritual on our farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina. They picked wild blackberries. These black jewels are plentiful this year and the girls were able to get enough for a fresh hot cobbler and several jars of jam. If you have never tasted a wild berry cobbler hot from the oven, you don’t know what heaven is.
Guinea Fowl
A white guinea fowl on our farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina. Wonderful bug eaters, their eggs are very good… if you can find them.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Afternoon Haul
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Results of a couple of minutes in the cucumber rows yesterday in our garden in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
Coming soon…pickles.
Bumblebees
We have had problems lately with our honey bees. For some unknown reason many of the local hives have died, which has had an effect on the pollination in our garden. While we are starting a new hive now, Mother Nature has risen up to try to help us out. We have a profusion of bumblebees this year. I captured several working our squash plants in the garden and the thistle in our meadow in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
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