Country roads and fields

The roads out here run straight for kilometres, and they are the best way I know to see how big the prairie is. A gravel grid road disappearing into a sunset, a highway under a storm, a double rainbow over a farm lane: the road gives the eye somewhere to go, and the sky does the rest.

Beside the roads are the fields, and they change with the season. Green wheat in June, canola in full yellow bloom in July, and sunflowers turning toward the light in August each rewrite the colour of the whole horizon. I keep going back to the same stretches of road to see what the crops are doing.

Most of these were made from the roadside, often near the end of the day when the light turns and the clouds start to build. Deer, tractor tracks, and the odd transport truck turn up in the frame now and then, and they are a reminder that this is working land.

Gravel road leading toward a purple storm cloud with rain shafts and an orange horizon

Photos

  • Gravel road with a yellow centre line stretching to the horizon under a cloud lit by evening sun
  • Highway running toward a low sun, with the road shining in the glare
  • Highway under a dark storm cloud with rain falling on the horizon
  • Gravel road leading toward a purple storm cloud with rain shafts and an orange horizon
  • Gravel road under a streaked red and orange sunset sky
  • Gravel road beneath a purple and magenta storm cloud at dusk
  • Farm road leading into the setting sun with golden cloud streaks above
  • Gravel road beside stubble under an orange sunset and dark cloud
  • Transport truck on a highway beneath a dramatic orange-lit cloud
  • Highway with a yellow centre line beneath breaking storm clouds at sunset
  • Red barn on the horizon beneath a blue storm cloud with rain and an orange sunset
  • Double rainbow over a lone tree in a green field
  • Double rainbow over a gravel road and green field
  • Rainbow arching over a gravel road beneath dark cloud
  • Misty gravel road with a bird flying low
  • Gravel road running straight to the horizon past dry ditches under a blue sky
  • Sun setting over a farm road with golden clouds above
  • Sun starburst through broken cloud above a dirt track across a field
  • Dark storm clouds over a canola field
  • Fence and gate in a prairie meadow of wildflowers under a blue sky
  • Cattle at the edge of a canola field in front of an aspen bluff
  • Sprayer working in a canola field with grain bins and trees behind
  • Beehives beside a canola field under a golden sunset sky
  • Canola field beyond a flooded field of blue water
  • Boundary between a green wheat field and a blooming canola field
  • White-tailed deer leaping across a green wheat field
  • White-tailed deer standing in a canola field
  • Tractor tracks running through a green grain field
  • Tractor tracks leading across a wheat field to a hazy treeline
  • Stubble field under a pale blue sky with rows leading to the horizon
  • Soft blurred view of a green field and trees in fog
  • Blooming canola field under a deep blue sky with scattered clouds
  • Large sunflower facing the camera in a field at dusk
  • Red-winged blackbird flying over a field of sunflowers
  • Field of sunflowers with a single tall bloom standing above the rest
  • Sunflowers in soft focus with one bloom sharp in the foreground
  • Close view of sunflowers in bloom
  • Sun setting low over a sunflower field
  • Sunset over a sunflower field with a grain elevator on the horizon
  • Sunbeams breaking through dark cloud over a sunflower field

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