The walk in my week....

This little area is alive with birds and in the summer this tree will form a green canopy over the stream

Today I saw Robins, Chaffinches, Pied Wagtails

And a cat stuck up a tree !

It will be interesting to see these fields in a few weeks and see what has started to grow !

This stone is all that remains of one of the old farm buildings

I wonder what stories it could tell. !

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Amazing maize....

I love how Maize grows in such straight lines - they seem to go on for miles !

Maize is a domesticated form of a wild grass, first cultivated over 5,000 years ago in tropical Mexico that produces an adaptable and productive grain. It has been inextricably linked with the rise of the South American civilizations and following their conquest by the Spanish, it was exported around the world. It was introduced to the UK in the early part of the twentieth century.

In the more northerly climates like that of the UK where there is insufficient summer warmth to ripen the crop, maize is grown largely for forage. Here it has become an important crop being the most important forage after grass.

Even something so ordinary can look beautiful if caught at the right angle

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From this.... to that ...

It's very easy to do basic photo manipulation using a very simple editing process over on photobucket.com
and whilst it's not got all the gizmos and gadgets that you would associate with a professional finish like on Photoshop, it does prove that you can play around with pictures and change them a bit.....


From this ....

As you can see this picture seemed to be a lovely view across the fields

but came out a bit dark and boring

To that.....

I brightened up the colour - and added a border but couldn't do much with the sky
but it works !


I think it looks a bit more interesting now.....

Over the fields and far away...

There are some stunning fields close to home

just perfect for a Sunday morning stroll

and where I found
that

The maize is as high as an elephant's eye

Wheat and corn fields are really quite noisy -when you get up close and personal 

you can hear it popping and creaking as the fronds sway in the breeze

This beautiful corn meadow reminded me of the lovely Eva Cassidy song

walking in Fields of Gold

I wonder where those leading lines are 

leading