It was the first sunshine for about two weeks so I walked up the lane to see how the Oak trees were doing.
Hardly a leaf left except for the odd brown one hanging on.
But one of them has a good covering of ivy and rose hips so there is a bit of cover left for small birds and insects to get out of the very chilly wind
The huge field full of sugar beet still hasn't been harvested. The processing campaign runs from September through to February or March although last year the factory carried on until April due to the very wet winter. One large heap of beet were moved from the edge of a field not far away last week. There one day and gone off to Bury St Edmunds the next time I went by.
I'm not sure where they will heap up this fields beet - I was trying to gauge how big this field is - going by how big our five acres were at the smallholding - it's well over 300 acres I reckon perhaps nearer 500.
On the other side of the road the oil-seed rape crop is growing. About 9 inches to a foot tall now. The bird scarer banger goes off regularly during the day, a sort of dull thud in the distance. Country people soon get used to them - unless the timer goes wrong and they 'BANG' at night - that's not so good but doesn't happen often.
Standing underneath, for a photo through the branches to the lovely blue sky
Back Tomorrow
Sue
Few things look more spectacular than the bare trees against the blue of a Winter's day sky.
ReplyDeleteMy husband worked for British Sugar many many moons ago... I well remember the relentless insatiable appetite of the processing plants once 'the campaign' started!
ReplyDeleteThe trees look very old and very gnarly now that they are completely bare, it's almost sad to see. The bird scarers used to really trigger Rosy for the first day they were in use, she really hated them.
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