View from the silo – April 2010
I had an interesting idea the other day: I thought that I could show you, my humble readers, just how much our surrounding landscape changes through a year. My idea was to climb 1 of our very high silos and take a photo or 2 of the surrounding countryside every month. I can then post those photos here, along with a short explanation as to why it looks as it does. So today while I was at the top of the silo opening a lid, I whipped out my phone and took this photo. As you can see, the photo quality isn’t great and in future I’ll try and use a better camera.
The farmland surrounding our farmyard.
The first in this series is a bit of a boring one. As you can see, despite all the recent rains everything appears dry and brown, thanks to the worked soil in the foreground and the stubble of last years lentil crop behind that. This is not the case everywhere, as due to much welcomed aforementioned rains, any areas not sprayed for weeds are starting to show a tinge of green.
For half the year, typically from November to about now (April – May) our landscape is predominately a dry and dusty picture similar to the above. This will change dramatically in the next month or two, as the rains and the air-seeders come (I’ll show you what an air seeder looks like in a couple of weeks.) and the area is transformed into a magnificent green. This all happens in a few short weeks, as I hope to document here.
What do you think? Interesting? Or not?
Themocracy
ya sweet as
Bring it on.
Love the photo, look forward to the next ones.
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