REDISCOVERING MYSELF THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Positive Burning

I'm a bit late to Madge's party (Rurality Blog Hop), but I actually have a rural image to share!   As I've written previously, I live in a valley that is a neighbor to a very large, agricultural valley---the Grande Ronde. Harvest time means more than grain--it means grass seed, mint, sunflowers, alfalfa third-cutting, and a bit later--sugar beets.  If the grass seed is fine fescue, the last stage after harvest is field burning. Farmers pull a propane burner behind a tractor to set the fire.   It's a dramatic scene to see grass fields burning cleanly among the other crops. The dramatic smoke soon dissipates and a "clean" black field remains.


Below are some of the stages leading to the image above.




6 comments:

Nancy said...

These are amazing shots....In the rural area where I grew up, they used to burn off pastures in the fall...but it was never to the magnitude of this type of burning...

TexWisGirl said...

i wonder what that does to the environment as a whole. sort of like in mexico when they burn off the fields and the smoke makes it all the way up to the dallas area.

Anonymous said...

Great shots illustrating this agricultural practice!

Candy C. said...

Oh my! Kind of gives an idea what a prairie fire must have looked like!

Bridget Larsen said...

wow that is amazing, would not be a good place for asthmatics to live

Anonymous said...

I'd rather see this than wholesale dumping of chemicals for control... Thank you for joining in 'Rurality Blog Hop #29' Hope to see you next Wednesday for #30...