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After dropping my brother off at college last weekend, I decided to take the less scenic route through the farm country of Southern Minnesota. Much of what you see in this region is similar to the photo above--corn and soybeans. This particular town, Janesville, has a population of 2100 people and a land area of 1.3 square miles.
Janesville. Waseca County, Minnesota.
"Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells"
— Pink Floyd Time (Breathe Reprise)
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Target Field, the first year home of the Minnesota Twins, the day after the Twins clinched the division title, hopefully a World Series is on the horizon!
Rice has always been the most common crop in Japan. The volcanic activity of the island makes the soil very acidic which makes growing rice ideal.
These days, however, the popularity and consumption of rice is decreasing rapidly as more and more people turn to bread and other Western foods. Not only that, but the rice fields themselves are disappearing. Young people don’t want to be farmers, so no one is replacing the aging ones. No one is quite sure what is to come of this situation.
If you look closely, you can see some school kids hanging out in the photo. I suppose a patch of rice fields is as good a place as any to avoid adults and get some privacy.
A field of fully-opened zinnias must be the finest expression of a southern summer. A close second would be eating a tomato sandwich. here's how to do it: Get a big, ripe tomato out of your own garden, gently pulling it off the vine. (Tomato sandwiches are best made with tomatoes harvested while warmed from the afternoon sun, so keep that in mind.) Avoid disturbing whatever assassin bugs, bumblebees, ladybugs and butterflies might be hanging around. Take your tomato into the kitchen, and slice it into cross-sections. Take 2 piece of white bread (NOT wheat, etc.). Smear BOTH pieces of bread with a generous amount of real mayonnaise...not that "lite" stuff. Adorn one slice of the bread with 2 or three pieces of tomato. Top the tomato with 4-5 BIG potato chips, straight out of the bag; it doesn't much matter if crinkle-cut, etc. Put the other slice of bread on top. Take the sandwich into BOTH hands, and leaning over the sink, eat it slowly.
Coors Field, located in Denver, Colorado, is the home field of the National League's Colorado Rockies. It is named for the Coors Brewing Company of Golden, Colorado, which purchased the naming rights to the park prior to its completion in 1995. The Rockies played their first two seasons, 1993 and 1994, in Mile High Stadium before moving to Coors Field, two blocks from Union Station in Denver's Lower Downtown (or LoDo) neighborhood. The park includes 63 luxury suites and 4,500 club seats.
Coors Field has a reputation as a home run-friendly park that, arguably, equals Chicago's venerable Wrigley Field, and earned it the nickname "Coors Canaveral" among critics (a reference to Cape Canaveral, from where NASA launches spacecraft). Denver's dry air tends to dry out baseballs, which makes the balls harder and travel farther. Other factors include the relatively low height of the fences and very limited foul territory area. In an attempt to limit the number of home runs, since 2002 balls have been placed in a humidor before games to keep them from drying excessively.
The Rockies knew that Coors Field would give up a lot of home runs because of its high altitude, and moved the fences farther away. This created a ballpark that not only gives up the most home runs in baseball, but also gives up the most doubles and triples as well.
Coors Field was the first new stadium added in a six year period in which Denver's sports venues were upgraded, along with Pepsi Center and INVESCO Field at Mile High. It was also the first baseball-only National League Park since Dodger Stadium was built in 1962.
As with the other new venues, Coors Field was constructed with accessibility in mind. It sits near Interstate 25 and has direct access to the 20th Street and Park Avenue exits. Nearby Union Station also provides light rail access.
Coors Field was originally planned to be somewhat smaller, seating only 43,800. However, after the Rockies drew almost 4.5 million people in their first season—the most in baseball history—plans were altered during construction, and new seats in the left field upper deck were added. The centerfield bleacher section has its own informal name: "the Rockpile."
While most of the seats in Coors Field are dark green, the seats in the 20th row of the upper deck are purple. This marks the city's one mile elevation point.
Unlike most baseball stadiums, where home plate faces east or northeast (so as to prevent sunsets from disturbing the batter), Coors Field faces due north, resulting in the sun shining in the first-baseman's eyes during sunset. (Wikipedia)
I stopped one morning this past autumn to take some photos at a local sunflower field next to Riverview, New Brunswick, Canada.
Foggy field in December, Mazovia, Poland. Vintage Mamiya Press with Mamiya-Sekor 90/3.5, 6x7 film back and Kodak 400 TMY2 developed with Kodak T-max kit. Scan by Epson V600.
Noratus cemetery or Noraduz cemetery (Armenian: Նորատուսի գերեզմանատուն) is a medieval cemetery with a large number of early khachkars located in the village of Noratus, Gegharkunik marz near Gavar and Lake Sevan, 90 km north of Yerevan. The cemetery has the largest cluster of khachkars in the republic of Armenia. It is currently the largest surviving cemetery with khachkars following the destruction of the khachkars in Old Julfa, Nakhichevan by the government of Azerbaijan.
The oldest khachkars in the cemetery date back to the late 10th century. During the revival of the khachkar tradition in the 16-17th centuries many khachkars were built under the yoke of the Safavid Empire when oriental influences seeped into Armenian art. Three master carvers from this period carved khachkars in Noraduz, the most notable of whom was Kiram Kazmogh (1551-1610), his contemporaries were Arakel and Meliset.
The cemetery is spread over a seven hectare field containing almost a thousand khachkars each of them depicting unique ornamentation. The majority of the khachkars are covered by moss and lichen. Several tombstones in the cemetery depict carved scenes of weddings and farm life.
(Wikipedia)
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Visiting the famous khachkar field of Noratus wast a must on our to do list when traveling around the Sevan lake; indeed, the place is both magical and spiritual, with history of past centuries that may be almost touched when one strolls through the area...