26 August

Round Bale, Bedlam Farm

by Jon Katz
Round Bale, Bedlam Farm
Round Bale, Bedlam Farm

Across the road from the farmhouse, the pasture has been cut and baled, round bales criss-cross the meadow waiting to be picked up. In the background, Maria’s studio, partially hidden behind the trees, and the old farmhouse, finally stripped of it’s ungainly shutters. Farmhouses did not have shutters in the early 1800’s, when ours was built.

In a sense, round bales are the sculptures of the farms, they have a character and timelessness to them that marks the passage of another season, another year.

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