Rain's Thursday Art Date: Crops and Farming

It's Thursday and that means we're meeting at Rain's for her Thursday Art Date.  This week, the theme is Crops and Farming.  I'm a "city" girl and don't see too many farms, so this will be a very short entry, I fear.

I have no art today, so I'll start with farmers harvesting their wheat, a crop we are famous for.  After all, Kansas is known as the Wheat State.

A field in a different town, where wheat is ready to be harvested.

The disparity between the green on the right and the brown on the left.

On the home front, this is what my side garden used to look like.

Tomatoes, eggplant, and bell peppers

were taller than the 8 foot fence.

Even my herbs were doing nicely.

I had so many plants, I didn't have room for all of them in my 16 X 8 foot (4,88 X 2,44 meter) garden.

I even took time to see what others were growing, especially cactus and succulents,

I tried to always rotate my crops, too.

I kept weeds down by laying shredded copier paper around my plants.

Then I purchased a blackberry bush and it has gone to town, taking over my side garden.

Now I no longer have the garden I used to have.

I also no longer have the bumper crops I used to share on my blog.

Since I have few crops to share, I'll show some drive by shots I caught when I felt safe to be out and about.

Fields of hay, I think, but it might be what is left of the wheat harvest.

This is a common sight in late summer in my part of the country, as it is for other places, too, I assume.

This is from my Money altered book.   I bet the farmers wished these bales of money were possible.

And on the mural front

this farm and the approaching storm and tornado say it all.  That's it for me this week.

All photos taken by me, except the last one, which was taken (using my camera) by the oldest of three youngsters who stayed with me last summer.  Bleubeard remembered when my side garden was extra productive and he was allowed to join me there.

Thank you ever so much for stopping by today.   Bleubeard and I are truly grateful to you, my friends, followers, readers, and lurkers for visiting.  Please also join us at Rain's Thursday Art Date.  

Next Thursday is October 1 and I will need to miss TAD because I am welcoming a new host at Art Journal Journey.