1923 RUMELY OIL PULL

1923 Rumely Oil Pull

I visited the 2012 Richland County Fair with my son and his family Sunday.  We saw this tractor belonging to the Buckeye Iron Will Club.

My first impression was that I was viewing a steam engine.  That did not last long as I walked closer.  I could not see a boiler.  I finally found spark plugs and realized that it was an internal combustion engine.  This oil pull is a two cylinder model.  I heard and saw one running on the internet and it sounds much like one of the old John Deere tractors.  They may have it running for the parade later in the week.

I remember hearing from my family that threshing was the primary use for mechanization in the early 20th Century.  Horses had been the power before that.  They could still pull equipment in the fields but they could not operate a thresher.  Threshing before that was done by animals walking on the grain heads.  The thrasher was a giant step forward.  The steam engines and machine's like the Rumely were used to operate them via a belt.

1925 McCormick Deering Thresher

 This threshing machine is or was on display at the fairgrounds beside one of the barns.  There is an information  tag near the back explaining the machine's use.

Gradually, the tractor out paced the horse in providing motive force for other field implements including the plow.  I hear that it took three horses to pull a one bottom plow.  They would have to stop and rest if the row was too long.  The tractor could go without resting and pull more than one bottom, eventually.  I have been unable to learn how many bottoms this tractor can pull.

One of the club's officers with the oil pull

I must confess that I am not a good reporter.  This kind gentleman told me his name and answered my questions.  I did not record his name and have forgotten it.

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End-banded Netwing

End-banded Netwing

I remembered photographing one of these previously but could not remember the name.  I thought, to myself, "This will be easy to find in the book."  I looked through all the moths and did not see it.  I knew in which book I had seen it.  I could almost remember the picture of it in the book.  I surely expected it to be a moth.  Finally, I found it with the beetles.  I was about to give up looking.  I would have, if I did not remember seeing it before.

Thanks to the FreeDictionary I learned this:  1. Any of numerous insects of the order Coleoptera, having biting mouthparts and forewings modified to form horny coverings that protect the underlying pair of membranous hind wings when at rest.  What we see are the forewings.  Interesting!

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Large Milkweed Bug

Large Milkweed Bug

This bug is common right now.  It is easy to spot because of its color contrast.

Large milkweed Bug

They mate in the open.

Large Milkweed Bug

Sometimes there is drama associated with the mating.

Large Milkweed Bug Nymphs

The result is small large milkweed bugs.  Their species seems healthy at Gorman Nature Center.

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Swamp Milkweed

Swamp Milkweed

I visited the same plant the other morning.  The blossoms have progressed to another stage.  The petals are gone on the early bloomers.  Also, the mining bee stayed over night and was covered with dew.  It was motionless at the time of my visit. 

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Common Buckeye Butterfly

Common Buckeye Butterfly

I have been seeing many of these this year.

Although present throughout the US, except the northwest, they tend to migrate south in the winter and then move north again in the summer.  They don't overwinter in the north.  They tend to change colors slightly from fall to summer. 

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Swamp Milkweed

Swamp Milkweed

I am sure that you will notice the blossoms in three stages.  The unopened, the opening and the open.  They are all on the same plant.  I went back this morning, two days later, to see that the petals were gone from the open blossoms.  The opening buds are open now and the unopened are in the the opening stage.  I was drawn by the symmetry of each group.  They remind me of fireworks in a way.  

I used a Sigma 105 mm, f/2.8 lens at f/4.  I used the shallow DOF, depth-of-field, to keep the lower foliage out of focus.  I shot a Helicon Focus series of eight captures.  I also placed a piece of black velvet cloth on the ground around much of the foliage to simplify the background.

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Van Gogh The Life

Prairie Dock

I am presently finishing Van Gogh, The Life by Steven Naifen and Gregory White Smith.  It is not an easy book to read.  The family was probably what we would call today dysfunctional.  I chose to read it because I had heard of Vincent van Gogh.  I knew he had been a painter.  That is about all.  

The authors have included much quoted text from his letters.  In one passage I read the other night, Vincent is describing how he feels when he looks at sunflowers with the blue sky behind.  The image his discourse brought to my mind stuck.  I commented to myself that I feel similar feels when I look at the yellow flowers with the sky in the background.

The next morning I saw a prairie dock in bloom.  One of the blossoms faced the right way for me and I photographed it.  I got that feeling again.  As usual, I try to be there when I am set up on a subject.  While I was there, a honey bee flew into the scene and was included on one of the shots.  The other insects appeared to be ants that day.  Upon closer examination on the computer, I saw that they were tiny bees.  They also had pollen on their rear legs.  

Prairie Dock

I have been told that yellow is not a color with which people like to decorate their houses, BUT I like this.  I feel joy when I look at it.  According to the biography, some of the painters in the late 19th century, including Vincent, used complementary colors in their paintings.  It conjures feelings of summers, the beach, warm weather; not hot; soft breezes and youth.  How do you feel when you look at it?  

I almost forgot!  While "being there" with this flower, I shot video.  The Prairie Dock is at the bottom of the page.

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