{"id":8728,"date":"2019-10-27T23:58:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T06:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=8728"},"modified":"2019-10-27T23:58:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T06:58:49","slug":"bales-and-sunset-eastern-plains-wk-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/27\/bales-and-sunset-eastern-plains-wk-44\/","title":{"rendered":"Bales And Sunset, Eastern Plains — wk 44"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Saturday was a clear fall day — the day before a few days of snow storms in the forecast. I headed out to the eastern plains, near Bennett. I turned off onto a dirt road and headed east for a few miles. Soon I found some bales of hay close to the roadside. This field had been recently harvested, with tracks in the field leading over the horizon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hay Bales, Eastern Plains.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A few miles farther, the road turned north along the edge of a recently harvested field. By this time, the sun had dropped lower in the sky, lighting up the furrows of stalks in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harvested Field, Eastern Plains.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Close by, I found some hay bales stacked at the roadside. Exploring the haystacks, I made several images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2372-0037-Hay-Bales-New-And-Old\"
Hay Bales, New And Old.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

At one spot, sun streamed into the space between the haystacks. Just like a cavern!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inside The Tower Of Bales.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

At this point, I turned my camera up to the sky for this image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bale, Sky View.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Soon it was time to head home. By this time, more clouds had filled the sky as the forecast snow had moved down from Nebraska. On the road to Bennett, the setting sun lit up the base of the incoming clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2372-0067-Sunset-Near-Bennett\"
Sunset Near Bennett.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Behind me, the sky was relatively clear, but those clouds were racing across the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Racing Clouds.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Nearby, I spotted a horse mounted on a mailbox. Here, I made my final image of a silhouette against the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mailbox Horse Silhouette.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A few hours later, the snow arrived, but that is a story for another day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday was a clear fall day — the day before a few days of snow storms in the forecast. I headed out to the eastern plains, near Bennett. I turned off onto a dirt road and headed east for a few miles. Soon I found some bales of hay close to the roadside. This field […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[633,126,991,895,634,1670,269,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-8728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-project52","7":"tag-bales","8":"tag-clouds","9":"tag-eastern-plains","10":"tag-fields","11":"tag-hay","12":"tag-haystack","13":"tag-silhouette","14":"tag-sunset"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMatQ-2gM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8730,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728\/revisions\/8730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}