Betty, in search of Boy Blue.

Back when haystacks were haystacks instead of white plastic marshmallows.

Or long white plastic worms, which is what some of them look like in parts of Pennsylvania!

I wasn't sure what you and Alan were referring to as resembling marshmallows or worms but happened to notice a photo I had taken in Tasmania with those marshmallows on a distant hill and realized the connection. We don't have fields of alfalfa here in dry, overdeveloped southern California so I've been sheltered from modern agricultural practices. Sad really.

She looks as though she found that needle.