YOU CAN SEE IT, sense it, almost smell and hear it—the anticipation of spring planting.
Along Minnesota State Highway 19 between Redwood Falls and Vesta.
Bare and stubbled fields stretch for miles and miles across southwestern Minnesota, earth turned to the warming sun, awaiting the seeds of spring.
Only remnants of winter remain in scattered patches of road ditch snow.
Along Brown County Road 29 southeast of Morgan.
On the edges of farm yards, tractors and planters and other implements sit, pulled from machine sheds. Greased. Oiled. Ready.
Farmers wait. Thawing spring rains fall. Frost rises from the ground. Drying winds whip across the land.
A child-size John Deere tractor photographed at dusk a yard away from a field in my hometown of Vesta.
And the days unfold into the season of renewal and hope and sowing of seeds.
© Copyright 2014 Audrey Kletscher Helbling
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