Scene from a hay field

Actually, I was told that it's bails of straw, but farmer though I've been I've never been able to tell the difference :-P

Just something that I thought would make a good photo while out and about this afternoon. That's one of the largest family-owned dairy farms in the country in the background, here in Rockingham County, North Carolina. And that hay straw has been gathered up to eventually feed to the cows.

Maybe I'll post a new picture of this field a few weeks or months from now, when the same straw comes back as spread cow manure.