Prepared for Winter

[Rense Haveman]

Living in a riverine area with heavy clays, the farmers have to plough their land before winter, in the hope frost will prepare the seedbed for the new season. In the background two pollarded willow trees, which are found everywhere in this landscape. Pollarding serves no longer any goal than landscape dressing, but once these trees provided rather good wood for the sticks of spades etc....


Prepared for Winter by Rense Haveman, on Flickr

 

[Glenn Clabo]

Excellent texture shift Rense. And I just added a word to my vocabulary... "Pollarded". Thank you.

 

[Pete Askew]

Gorgeous Rense and I love the metallic gleam on the worked clay. A superb sense of atmosphere and environment to this too.