One of the nice things about the Manic Monday Meme created by our friend Mo is that it gives you a chance to think about all sorts of things. This time around I went looking for a visual, written, and musical way to say "Harvest". The first two were easy with a great painter, Peter Brueghel, and a great poet, Carl Sandburgh. For the third, "Shine On Harvest Moon" is a nice sing along, but I wanted something other than just the song so here is a fun version where Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sing and dance to the song.
Pieter Brueghel the Elder c.1530 - 1569.
The Corn Harvest. Painted 1565.
The Corn Harvest. Painted 1565.
Harvest Sunset
by Carl Sandburg
RED gold of pools,
Sunset furrows six o’clock,
And the farmer done in the fields
And the cows in the barns with bulging udders.
Take the cows and the farmer,
Take the barns and bulging udders.
Leave the red gold of pools
And sunset furrows six o’clock.
The farmer’s wife is singing.
The farmer’s boy is whistling.
I wash my hands in red gold of pools.
