The tools are common versions of both scythe and rake. The person depicted is either going to or returning from harvest of a crop for which these tools were used.
Beautiful photo, it really captures another time in history. I would guess based on the photo itself and the frame that it is probably somewhere around 1910-1930.
It's not a photo. It's a black and white rotogravure paper print reproduced from a well known painting. I was thinking the artist was Edouard Manet but that doesn't feel quite right. I have a large earlier print that includes the whole painting in my collection, I'll look at it the next time I'm in the stacks and see who the artist was.
I believe the trees are mulberry that have been pollarded. Willow are commonly pollard in Germany and Zeeland but the thick convoluted trunk indicates mulberry rather than willow. That would tend to put the scene in a more southern clime like France.
This was a very popular nostalgic piece around the turn of the century. Most of these prints date from the 1880 - 1915 period. Your frame would point to that era too.