Separating seed from grain - a photo on Flickriver

            This is not their fault. They built these elevators back when they could sell seed and grain to farmers to plant in our soon-shrinking agricultural lands. Poof! "Do you want to live forever?" 

Time to switch from old ag to ag new again but without an old-and-in-the-way veep.and within the law unlike previous veeps and their veeps. This is still vertical. Growers raised a lot of grains in the valley (some still do) and put them into silage while awaiting better market prices. This storage (and milling?) installation is east of LoCo. My family started growing northern plains corn east of a mile high Longmont. The McIntosh/Lohr AG Museum appears to be closed to Trump-19 visitors now so that is temporarily off the future treks list. Farmers like McIntosh grew feed; some for milling. I suspect the MAC Ag. museum had to haul their crops to a mill and/or the Longmont Creamery. Many farmers had their own small milling operations. It is an impressive view against this sky though not tall enough to mix around those cumulus clouds. The capture day was on an impressive sky day, if I remember and note. 

I see that I was really into backlit subjects then. Here is backlit in spades and took shadow control. Here is the mill east of Frogmont on the prairie flats. It seems like it might still be in production. 

Clouding was to soon give me a break and it really started to envelope the entire sky that day. What did this sky portend for the afternoon?

Taken on: June 8, 2020

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Lens:	70.0-200.0 mm f/2.8
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