It kinda reminded me of something, this view. There were big puffy clouds in the sky and their shadows were moving over undulating hills covered with dark green, freshly-sprouted field peas. The scene was changing constantly as I shot my pictures but as I was watching it through the viewfinder, I couldn’t shake that feeling of familiarity.
It wasn’t familiar because I was yet again headed out to the prairie east of Hussar. I know I come out this way a lot — and I have photographed these same hills many times before — but this country is just so lovely, I can’t stay away. No, it was something else.
But it wasn’t until I was past the dry bed of Wolf Lake and into the irrigation country closer to Gem that I remembered what it was. Watching the clouds roll across the sky above a pasture filled with cattle and undulating waves of belly-high grass, everything clicked into place. Green fields, cloud shadows, cotton-ball sky, yeah, that’s what it is! Having never used a Windows laptop even on a dare, I’m not very well versed in their myriad capabilities and know them more by their reputation for keeping IT people gainfully employed.
But I have seen the background image that appears — or used to, at least — when the machine first boots up. It’s a lovely photo of, you guessed it, rolling green hills with cloud shadows and a fluff-filled sky. The green in that photo was grass, not peas, and it was shot in California but otherwise, the scene was remarkably similar.
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