For me canola has a bit an eye-pain colour, but before I post something darkish, black&whiteish again, I go today with a colourful landscape pic. Captured from a place near where I work.
That’s how it looks like hereabout, at this time of the year. Mount Rigi covered in snow. Rapeseed (Brassica napus) fields everywhere. Old pear trees (mostbirnen not edible, only to make schnaps) in bloom. And a lot of different greens (grass, winter weat,...). At this place the snow was gone by noon, but we had heavy snow showers all day. We live a little higher up, just at the snow line. But our place is not to be seen in this picture.
Interesting for me: the name "canola" was chosen by the board of the Rapeseed Association of Canada in the 1970s. The "Can" part stands for Canada and "ola" refers to oil. However, a number of sources continue to claim it stands for "Can(ada)+o(il)+l(ow)+a(cid). The name was coined partially to euphemize the name of rapeseed oil, to avoid the negative connotations of rape as a violent sex crime, from the Latin "rapere". But in german this oil seed is called Raps.
