Here it is. I made this from wheat stalks that I cut from a wheat field literally yards from my front door.
I mounted them on a $2 wire wreath frame, using a $3 roll of florist’s wire.
Just one thing I’d do differently … projects with wheat are best done outdoors. Those spines are really difficult to get out of the carpet.
I call it, “The Many Moods of Big Southern Butte.”
These are all 12×12 paintings, and they will all be for sale at American Falls Days in early August.
These two sunset ones are already claimed.
Plus, a bonus farm painting…
I swear I am not making this up.
Some late Spring evenings really do look like this, from our house, looking north.
This is a view of Big Southern Butte at the moment long after sunset when the entire sky is pink and the ground is mostly too dark to see, other than that it is dark green.
Behind Big Southern Butte, you can see the beginnings of the Pioneer Mountains.
I did this quickly, using blocks of color, similar to my farm painting last year. That one portrayed a wheat field just beginning to turn yellow; this field is much younger, still green.
The road barely glimmers in the gloaming.
The green in the foreground is our front lawn.
Here it is, photographed in low light:
We had a late Spring this year.
The natural kind. From the natures.
He’s the one with the extra-red comb.
A gnome is emerging hat-first from his hibernation.
You can see that they are bigger and more developed just in the day or two between the first and second videos.
Now, as I post this, they are so much bigger as to be unrecognizable.
Arguably, the most fun part of getting baby chicks is the naming of them. Meet:
We were visited by these Snow Geese on their way north. I took this video out my bedroom window on the third day of spring.
Out of Babel Books 