A tractor hitched with a large wagon and more boxes added as necessary to carry home the cargo is assisted by a quad. This vehicle goes is in front of the pickers to load the individual crates as fast as possible so that the race to row's end continues unimpaired. Traversing the rows and grabbing the vine ripened prize is met with gameful cheer, a comaraderie that speaks to having won and lost with the same crew in another vineyard.
Last night they must have lost one of their big stands of flood lights because as they stood on our side of the vineyard, clearly they were losing flashlights to pick until the light from the other stand came into view.
We enjoy this finalization of summer's harvest, sitting on our upper deck, watching in anticipation as the light shines thru the pines. We glimpse movement and hear the cheering, it's an exciting end to an evening and properly crowns the harvest season. Thank you.https://youtu.be/WMwKObCx9HQ
