I promised more random scenes from our Saturday walk around our town, Sapareva Banya, so here goes.
An alternate way to make hay bales is to bring the hay home in a horse-drawn hay wagon and then make the bales by hand. Here you see the wooden box open on one end. The man is stuffing and stomping the hay into the box until it is full and is now a compressed hay bale. The hinged box opens on one side to take out the bale and the man will tie several strings around the bale to keep it tight. This method works well. It just takes a little longer than a machine.
A few houses in town are quite modern and beautiful.
These grape arbors are in front of every house to provide both grapes and shade. This is one of the smaller arbors and thus easier to photograph. It is difficult to take street scenes here because the front of most houses is blocked from view by the arbors.
Many people walk to work or to the magazine (store) but the majority of families have a car or SUV. There are a few vans and small delivery trucks and highway-sized busses but what is missing are pickup trucks. This is the Sapareva Banya equivilent of the pickup truck. There are box type wagons for hauling produce or fire wood and open type wagon for hauling hay. See the picture of the hay bale project to see a hay wagon. The wagon in this picture is being pulled by a donkey but most are pulled by a horse.
Shirley loves to take pictures of flower boxes.
Look carfully and you will see lots of plums. They are in full fruit right now and people are canning whole plums and plum juice. I love these sweet plums.
I love this old barn. In it's various sections it is constructed of half timbering, wattle and daub, adobe bricks, soft baked clay brinks, stone, and planks. One uses whatever one has at the moment. And of course, here is another wagon. All wagons have rubber tires like this one.
Welcome to Sapareva Banya, our home town for the next 7 ½ weeks.
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