Summer is nearly half gone, and the heat here has turned truly oppressive. The fields have dried out, and the farms are busy running their machinery through, forming the bales that will carry them through the winter months.

Along the edges of the fields, the uncultivated soil shows what this whole space would look like if left alone, a smaller, wilder world unfolding at its margins. Camera down low, close to the ground, is where that world comes into focus, every detail shaped by time and weather are laid bare around me