Harvest time around the world

The leaves are turning gold here in Colorado, the most beautiful time of the year. Around the world it is harvest time. Ann Voskamp links to photographs of harvest time at Boston.com.

I wish I could get my kids to wear hats like this when they are harvesting on their mom's farm. Then they could avoid the skin cancers I have been battling for twenty years or longer.

Japanese young people harvest rice in a rice harvest event at a farm 80 kilometers east of Tokyo in Isumi city, Chiba prefecture, Japan, on Sept. 8. While the 4.63 million hectares of rice fields in Japan are mostly cultivated by farmers over 65, a growing number of young people and families from urban areas are participating in rice planting and harvesting events as part of efforts to stimulate rural communities, according to Japanese news reports. (Everett Kennedy Brown/European Pressphoto Agency)

Something besides war goes on in Gaza. Who knew?:

A Palestinian farm worker climbs a palm tree to pick dates on a farm in Deir El Balah, southern Gaza Strip, on Oct. 7. The harvesting season for dates usually starts at the beginning of October, after the first rain. The community of Deir El Balah takes its name from the word "balah", an Arabic word for dates. (Hatem Moussa)/Associated Press)

You have to bend over when you are harvesting.

People take part in the grape harvest for the Champagne house Koza-Janot in Sept. 24 in Buxeuil, France. (Francois Nascimbeni/AFP/Getty Images)

This is what my boys would be doing.

Layren McDaniel, 11, leaps on hay bails in the kids village during the Harvest Festival at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill near Harrodsburg, Ky. on Sept. 28. (Clay Jackson/The Advocate Messenger via Associated Press)

When workers in Chiapas, Mexico are not dodging bullets from drug cartels, they are washing bananas that will soon be eaten by you and me.

A worker carries washed banana at the Santa Cruz banana plantation on Aug. 2 in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas, Mexico. The fruit from the plantation in the Mexican state of Chiapas are harvested year round and shipped to clients in Mexico and the United States, including Chiquita, the leading American banana distributor. (John Moore/Getty Images)

A strong back!

An ethnic Khasi farmer harvests cabbages on a field of the Smith village in the outskirts of Shillong city, the capital of the Indian Meghalaya state, India, on Sept. 30. Agriculture is the main occupation of the Khasi people that mainly lives in the Meghalaya state. (European Pressphoto Agency)

Eight dollars and some carrots to eat!

Unemployed people gather carrots in the field of farmer Igor Pakush near the village of Malashki, some 40 km (25 miles) northwest of Minsk on Oct. 2. Some unemployed residents help harvest crops on the privately-owned farm, and in turn, receive 80,000 Belarusian rubles ($8.8) and several kilos of carrots at the end of the day as a payment for their work. (Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)

Those birds would like to help!

Polish fisherman pull a net from the Milickie Ponds during the traditional Carp haul in Grabownica village, south-west Poland, on Oct. 8. Traditionally, carp harvest started in October, well ahead of the forthcoming Christmas season. (Maciej Kulczynski/European Pressphoto Agency)

Colorful!

Kashmiri villagers thresh rice after harvest in Boras village, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northeast of Srinagar, India, on Oct. 2. Agriculture is the main source of food, income, and employment in rural areas. (Dar Yasin/Associated Press)

Matching hat and apron!

A Hmong hill tribe woman harvests a rice terrace field at Mu Cang Chai district, northern Vietnamese province of Yen Bai. The World Bank on Oct. 7 lowered its 2013 growth forecast for East Asian developing countries to 7.1 percent and warned that a prolonged US fiscal crisis could be damaging to the region. (Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP/Getty Images)

Okay, this might be what my boys would be doing!

Rural children take a nap on corn cobs in rural Jiaozhou city, Shandong province, China, on Oct. 4. Autumn harvest season is coming as Chinese farmers begin to reap their crops. China's grain output reached a record high of 589.6 million tons in 2012 and is expected to reach a new record in 2013, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. (Wu Hong/European Pressphoto Agency)