Under a wide Vermont summer sky of almost painful blue, a farm family works together loading a horse-drawn hay wagon in a scene that photographer Howard Rutkowski captured in Cabot, Vermont — a child pitching hay from below while an adult steadies the load from atop the wagon, two sturdy draft horses patient in their traces, the rolling Green Mountain landscape spreading behind them in a palette of a dozen shades of green. By the 1960s when this chrome-era card was published, horse-drawn haying was already a rarity in most of America, making Rutkowski's photograph both a charming pastoral and a deliberate act of documentation; Cabot, Vermont — a small Northeast Kingdom village best known today for Cabot Creamery — still harbored a handful of traditional farms where mechanization had not yet fully arrived. Published by Green Mountain Color of Cabot, Vermont, this locally produced card has the intimate authenticity of a community publishing its own story rather than a distant printer romanticizing the countryside. The chrome photographic process renders the colors with a saturated fidelity that linen cards could never achieve, making the hay's golden-green and the horses' dappled gray coats almost tactile.