After a brief creative encounter with a duck and some water, I am back to the fields in local farmland. This time, it was a late evening shoot and a slightly different location.
There is a link with today's post and today, since we spend the afternoon with my father-in-law who was opening his garden to the public as part of a local Heritage day. The church was also open with some floral displays, one of which used this grass and I was, through conversation, able to identify it as wild oats.
Despite touring some pretty gardens, I wasn't in the mood for flower photography (nor anything else for that matter!). So I hope that you will enjoy - through this week - some of these taken last Sunday evening.
On the matter of wild oats:
"Farmers have since ancient times hated it because it’s a weed that’s useless as a cereal crop, but its seeds have always been difficult to separate from those of useful cereals and so tended to survive and multiply from year to year. The only way to remove it was to tramp the fields and hand-weed it. Even today it’s still a problem, despite modern seed cleaning and selective weedkillers."
Alternative shot in the other album if you prefer to see a little more of the grasses.
I love this! I think you've created quite a strong abstract with each elegant gray flower or grass head or whatever they are. VERY cool and instant fav.
The commentary on the wild oats reminds me of how we feel about Dandelions- to many a pesky weed that ruins gardens. But so lovely to photograph! This is very nicely composed and the colors make a very nice contrast.
June 27th, 2017
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