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Have you ever taken pictures, several at the same place, and you just CAN'T choose only one of them?
Let me know which of these two you like better :)
They almost make a panorama.
By the way, the edit work is just to suit my taste these days :)
Spectacular view from top of the hill ... This is Hitchin Lavender Farm! Spent almost 4 and half hrs there under 25°C, but I just couldn't stop myself "shooting" these lavenders with my limited memory card.
Happy Sliders Sunday! Hope you have another great weekend as usual!
RELAXATION is the topic for Wednesday July 27, 2011
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A little bit about the history of the farm:
www.hitchinlavender.com/about_us.html
Our family have farmed at Cadwell for more than hundred years and for five generations. Lavender was introduced in 2000, alongside the traditional arable crops we continue to grow.
Meanwhile Cranfield University designed and built a harvester that only cuts the heads off the flower ( rather than the stem as well ) which when distilled, emit a particularly strong aroma. We currently crop five varieties. Folgate, Maillette and Ashdown Forest are three types of Angustifolia which we grow and we also have Grosso and Lullington Castle which are Intermedias.
Early in 2010 we sowed 5 more varieties, Hidcote, Blue Ice, Rosea, Sawyers and Edelweiss - and after a successful first year of in 2010 we have increased the number of sunflowers we are growing in 2011.
Every year we open the lavender fields to the public and run a small tea room and gift shop that is stocked full of items made from our own lavender
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxVH-5D6c-k&feature=fvst
The song of Sting, one of my favourite song artists, talk about fields of barley but these are fields of "Lupinus luteus", also known as "yellow Lupin". Its yellow seeds, known as lupin beans, were once a common food of the Mediterranean basin. Today they are used for feeding animals and sometimes as a snack food.
Taken this weekend very close to our house.
Here are the lyrics:
"You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we walk in the fields of gold
So she took her love
For to gaze awhile
Upon the fields of barley
In his arms she fell as her hair came down
Among the fields of gold
Will you stay with me, will you be my love
Among the fields of barley
We'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we lie in the fields of gold
See the west wind move like a lover so
Upon the fields of barley
Feel her body rise when you kiss her mouth
Among the fields of gold
I never made promises lightly
And there have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We'll walk in the fields of gold
We'll walk in the fields of gold
Many years have passed since those summer days
Among the fields of barley
See the children run as the sun goes down
Among the fields of gold
You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You can tell the sun in his jealous sky
When we walked in the fields of gold
When we walked in the fields of gold
When we walked in the fields of gold"
Happy Fence Friday~!
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I saw several acres on fire like this on a drive back from Hobart. Looked quite spectacular on a large scale. Apparently burning controls weeds and pests, and improves yields in the season after burning - a better solution than chemical pesticides and fertilisers~!
First time out with the camera for nearly 4 months on Monday night.
Local Barley field in some rather nice light.
A series of homages to Paul Nash. (More photos in the comments below.)
Monster Field
Sutherland painted the work of bombs
On paper factories choked with smoke:
Delacroix’s tiger leered and prowled,
Paper-rolls were boles of oak.
When Piper painted Coventry
Gothic arches lit by blasts,
The fires of burning houses made
The window-lights, for want of glass.
When Nash forsook his box of paints
And took his camera to the field,
Trunks turned feral, leered and snarled,
Canines almost unconcealed.
When Attenborough films a nest
Of ants at war, or when we plan
To cluster-bomb, or fly a Drone,
Which is brutal? Beast or man?
Poem by Giles Watson, 2010.
Foggy Morning in December of 2007. Photo was taken near Kansas City mo. Welcome to the heartland of America.
Another senior portrait shot of my daughter April in a wheat field west of Missoula.
Canon 1Ds MK I
Canon EF85mm f/1.2L
Grain Silo all by itself out in the middle of a snow blown field. I couldn't help but take this picture as this large snow field was undisturbed from wildlife, man or machine.
I passed by many sunflower fields and was looking for an opportunity to take a not so common picture of one.
I knew I had found it when I saw the roundabout warning and remembered that sunflower is tournesol (turn [towards the] sun) in french.
Sunday, 23 February 2020: our temperature this morning is -4C (windchill -8C). Sunrise is at 7:33 am, and sunset is at 6:06 pm. Light snow is supposed to arrive this afternoon.
Another break from posting South Texas photos taken in March 2019. This morning, I have posted 8 photos taken yesterday, 22 February 2020, when I joined a group of friends and some new people for the annual Snowy Owl Prowl. This, plus a Pre-Owl Prowl in January, is led by Terry Korolyk each year. We travel the roads east of Calgary, hoping to see Snowy Owls and any other birds and wildlife. I usually come home with a few odds and ends of photos, taken either through the driver's windscreen (which rarely works) or while we are driving by. The result is a handful of "rescued", poor quality shots, taken mainly just for the record.
The lack of even half decent shots takes nothing away from a full day out in the countryside, on a sunny day, and in good company. We could have done without the cold wind, though.
The day proved successful as far as Snowy Owls were concerned. Four extremely distant owls were seen by sharp-eyed birders. I know I would never have seen these myself and we all marvelled at the birders who spotted the owls for the rest of us.
Other birds that were seen during the day included a Prairie Falcon, a small group of Ring-necked Pheasants feeding in a field, and an unexpected Rusty Blackbird. I was travelling in the leader's car, which is always at the front, and we knew not to get out of the car when the Blackbird was seen. We didn't want to cause it to fly off before everyone else had seen it. After sitting for a while, trying in vain to get photos through the windshield, we realized that everyone from the other cars were standing in the road, taking photos. Too late for us, as the bird flew away. This tends to be what happens when travelling in a group, of course - some people get photos, others don't. My photos of the Prairie Falcon through the windshield did not come out, either. Apparently, someone in one of the cars behind us wanted to get closer to get better photos. The car pulled too far in front of us instead of staying level with us, too close to the bird, and away it flew. Hopefully, everyone got the chance to see it first, as it is always a nice sighting.
As always, my camera lens turned to anything else of interest or beauty. Though my photos were taken at the very last minute as we were driving by, I just managed to get a few rapid shots of an old barn or two, which always makes my day.
Many thanks, Terry, for organizing another successful Snowy Owl Prowl, and the ride was greatly appreciated!
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