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It's not often you get to see history practically halted in its tracks, but here is a rare case.
On the left is John Constable's 1821 painting, 'The Haywain', and on the right, is my picture of the same location from 200 years later. Willy Lott's House is probably the least altered part of the scene.
Somebody must be pruning or replanting to keep some of the woody plants about the same as in the painting -- the tall shrub/many-trunked tree between us and the chimney, for instance.
I wonder why they were okay with a *wet* haywain, that surprised me, I suppose it would dry off quickly in haying season.
@clew
I don't know about the pruning, but I don't think any hay is in danger of getting wet.
No, but if you put dry hay into a wet wagon you have a wet layer of hay! V unwanted.
Maybe the bath chases out vermin? And, again, maybe it just drys out before it gets to the field, in good harvest weather.