Harvest Day?

@odd Yup. I didn't see it happen, but it looked and smelled very fresh. I've grown so used to the big, round bales, which are ubiquitous in the midwest, I was deeply surprised by this old style, which I think suits the western horse life better.

Another amazing photo with the huge mountain dwarfing the paddock and hay bales, and the textures! Beautiful.

In Norway we call the big round bales packed in white plastic for “tractor eggs”. They are by far the most common now, but when I had a summer job at a small farm in 1985, we still used haywire and aired the hay on that until early fall. Then it was transported by horse to the barn. The old farmer didn’t have a tractor, he only used his horse for everything. He had sheep on summer grazing, and they had to be rounded up in the fall, and brought back to the barn, but I had quit for school by then. 🚜🥚🥚🥚🐴🐑🐑🐑

@JohnBrady I don’t think many places here have done it like that in many decades. Before the haywire certainly, and maybe in some smaller places with hilly terrain, but I doubt they do it anywhere in Norway now, except for maybe in museums.

@Miraz Thank you. I screeched to a stop and pulled a high-speed u-turn to capture this. I've never been through there at harvest time.