It's Gonna Be a Late Harvest

These are pictures of the wheat in the flat close to where Auntie Violet is parked. I took them last week on our way home from church.

The wheat has started to turn color this week, but it's a long ways from being ripe. For many years our old neighbor Everett made it his goal to be harvesting by the Fourth of July -- though I am sure that many times he was harvesting green wheat. He often had to stop combining as the elevator wouldn't take the wheat he was bringing in. But the minute Everett's combine hit the fields, my father-in-law became extremely antsy. A farmer at harvest time is like a race horse in the starting gate!

Be that as it may, harvest this year is definitely going to be late.