I pirated the photo here from my niece’s blog. (Pardon moi, Susan, but t’anks! Your camera’s better than my smartphone, anyway.)
Rice is nice (and green)!
You see, I’ve been meaning to take a snapshot of a rice field for weeks now, every time I drive across the prairie past the fields that spread away for miles and miles across the flatness. The fields are notable this time of year because of the rice’s ultra-verdant color. Fields of other local crops, like soy beans and corn and sugar cane, pale alongside emerging rice’s brilliance.
In time, of course, like any other grain crop, rice turns “gold unto harvest.” That’s a neat color, too. After the crops are harvested, in fact, the golden stubble spreading across the flatness makes the Louisiana prairie strangely resemble Kansas. Maybe in July and August when the farmers cut the rice, I’ll update the blog with a post ”For a golder gold, rice is nice.”
June 27, 2009 at 10:15 am |
I think we can come your rice fields to our grain fields….beautifully, rich in green turning to golden brown before harvest.
June 27, 2009 at 9:47 pm |
I must not have visited your blog lately…I hadn’t seen my “pirated” photo. You can use my pics anytime! I do like the contrast of the brown around the rice field and then the shocking green of the rice. However, no picture can show how it looks in person.