Wheat Harvest–Biei Town
by rebecca ~ August 3rd, 2005. Filed under: Respite.
My son and I took a short trip this past weekend to a nearby town called Biei, famous for its lavender and patchwork fields. We happened upon a wheat harvester, a gargantuan machine I haven’t seen in a long time, not since my late teen car drives between Minneapolis and Saint Cloud. It crept along like a bloated praying mantis.
It was hot & humid, threatening to storm, and on a rickety rented bike, we explored as much of the countryside as we could before heading back home for Indian food. Then off to our well-deserved naps, lulled to slumber by the syncopatic chorus of raindrop tap and thunder boom.