Wheat

There are reasons I live in a rural village....

I just love winter wheat. For a few days in early spring the wheat fields are like enormous lawns. Come midsummer the crop quickly turns from green to golden.

The fields eventually settle to the tans you see here, with enough variation to keep your interest. Then the farmers bring out their combines and harvest everything. Which is another thing I like about living here.

The busy seeds in the foreground are not a typical crop, at least around here, but they're just delightful. Last year's 366 Snaps photo was intended to bring out that busy-ness.

During recent years the local farmers have planted shorter wheat varieties than they planted in my youth. I'm sure this makes the crops less vulnerable to summer storms. There are likely other advantages I don't recognize because, at heart, I'm a city boy.

A color outtake, today, just because.

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This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps.

Number of project photos taken: 10
Title of "roll:" More Wheat
Other photos taken on 7/8/2012: none.