Harvesting Beans

Here are a few pictures of us harvesting the beans yesterday with Grandpa Steve.  This was the red combine's last job before moving on to another farmer.  It has been a beautiful weekend of sunshine.  You will be able to see the sun setting on our progress as you scroll through these pictures.

We started mid afternoon, sun high in the sky. 

And a few of my monarch butterfly photos that I took along the sides of the field.

Elliot getting into drive the grain cart.

Brian catching up with the neighbors while grandpa Steve starts in on the fourth of five small fields.

Brian pulling out of one of the hilltop fields with the grain cart.

The river bottom was filled with dust, created from the chaff coming out of the back of combines of several farmers working on getting their crops out on a nice day.

The first woolly caterpillar I've spotted this fall.

Chaff from the back of the combine.  This always reminds me of Psalm 1.  "Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away"  

Geese flying over the harvested field after the sun has set.