I arrived early in October as the fall colors just reached their full colors. The harvest was just starting when I arrived so I was kept busy from dawn to dark every day. The weather was great as the
temperature was warm and the skies stayed clear. There in fact had been a very dry summer. The spring had been wet and some of the crop went in the ground very late.
Photos show the timber just west of Joel's house.
Every morning we started of by feeding the calves
and bred heifers back at Judy's. The sky was
usually just getting light so most of the sunrise photos that I took are taken in this area. The sunrises were spectacular. I need to learn more about my camera in order to capture some of the brilliant colors that occurred jn the morning. I am sure it is the high amount of particulate material in the air which provide the brilliant colors. Still other mornings the aircraft provided an interesting pattern in the sky of their "
The harvest of the soybeans and corn was the main priority during the first weeks in Iowa. Donald would drive the combine and I would drive the tractor pulling the empty wagons to the field being harvested and the full wagons to be unloaded. This photo shows the combine with one of the grain wagons in the back ground. The soybeans were all hauled to the Fremont Elevator where they were weighed and unloaded. The trip to town was between 3-5 miles depending on the field being harvested location. The only problem was one flat tire on a wagon.
