As I usually do when I go up the Fraser valley alone, I took the freeway. There's always a deadline to meet. But coming home, my time is my own, so I cut across farm country, following empty roads alternately south and west, never the same route twice, arriving finally at home sleepy but refreshed.
This afternoon, coming back from Chilliwack, I meandered down to the skirts of Vedder Mountain, then across Sumas Prairie. The sun was hidden behind thick clouds and there was an occasional spatter of rain; colours were muted and the hills hidden in the mists.
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| Last year's corn stubble and a hay field to the east. Taken through the car window, since it was raining at the moment. |
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| Red paint peeling off an old barn, exposing older yellow underneath. |
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| In Sumas Prairie, I found a field of tulips; a spot of colour in a grey and brown landscape. |
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| Long rows and a full ditch. |
The rain more or less held off until I got home. Now, in the middle of the night, it's pouring cats and dogs. And slugs. I just found one getting a drink in the bird bath.
Your last photo reminds me of a rainbow stretching across the ground, albeit in red, yellow, green and a soft mud brown. Very pretty, indeed!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos. Love the paint-peeling barn and the vibrant tulip colors against the gray background.
ReplyDeleteWOW!
ReplyDeleteI love the first capture - the hills and the clouds almost becoming one in the distance!!
ReplyDeleteI love all the snails and snail eggs!!
I just saw an exhibition of many of Van Gogh's landscape paintings, and I think your fields of flowers look just like those works. Neat shots.
ReplyDeleteThanks, all!
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