Three weeks ago when I last drove down to Hampshire these fields were still green, now they are full of early season rapeseed... glorious yellow flowers, but a bit of a stink..
Popped in to see mum before seeing Pompey beat Crystal Palace 2-1. Still clinging on to hope that we'll avoid the drop but with just 2 games to go and a 5 point gap to safety, we have to win our last couple of games and hope Bristol City don't get more than 1 point in their last 2 games..
A little hope but I can hear the fat lady clearly her throat as I type....
I love the fields of yellow across the rolling hills when I see it in spring. Funnily they call it canola here now because no wants their fields to be raped. True dinks!
@polarvrtx haha I see it too now... well spotted :-) @toast cheers mate - nothing used and only darked a bit in picassa... @phil_howcroft yeah, lots of new teams to check out next year eh... although your boys still have a fighting chance mate..
you've just answered the question that has been on my mind for the last WEEK!
I stayed overnight in the countryside just outside of Birmingham last week and the B'n'B was surrounded by this crop! also the fields alongside the motorways are just swelling with this glorious lush yellow-ness!
My instant thought was Canola... but the B'n'B lady frou frou'd that, so it's been puzzling me EVER SINCE!!!! yay for you!!!
Brassica napus, also known as rapeseed, rape, oilseed rape, rapa, rappi, rapaseed (and in the case of one particular group of cultivars, canola), is a bright yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family).
Actually we called them mustard now I think about it!
welcome back from your trip, nice use of sky and foreground !
@toast cheers mate - nothing used and only darked a bit in picassa...
@phil_howcroft yeah, lots of new teams to check out next year eh... although your boys still have a fighting chance mate..
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
you've just answered the question that has been on my mind for the last WEEK!
I stayed overnight in the countryside just outside of Birmingham last week and the B'n'B was surrounded by this crop! also the fields alongside the motorways are just swelling with this glorious lush yellow-ness!
My instant thought was Canola... but the B'n'B lady frou frou'd that, so it's been puzzling me EVER SINCE!!!! yay for you!!!
also... I do believe the saying is: "great minds think alike" he he http://365project.org/wadey/365/2012-04-11
Actually we called them mustard now I think about it!