There was mist swirling around a pasture in the hills north of the city.
It was coming from a pond a little bit to the west, the evaporation from its waters, still warm from the day before, condensing as it rose into the cool morning air. Wafted along by tiny air currents created by the radiant heat from the early morning sun, it was wrapping around the cattle and sheep grazing on the dewy grass.
Two days before, the countryside was also peaceful and pastoral but I was out there in the heat of the afternoon instead of the cool of the morning. The last few weeks of dry, hot weather had made me curious about how the crops were doing and I wondered, too, if the dry sloughs I’d visited a couple of months ago had completely dried up again.Photographically, at least, the fields looked good.
I love the patterns this stuff leaves behind as the water holding it dries up. Seen from above with my little drone hovering over the slough, it looked like a satellite view of an alien landscape in some spots and dry, pockmarked plains in others. Closer to the water, the wet spots were green and the slough bed, blue.
I’d seen my dad do this a hundred times back in the old days and he formed an opinion on the grain whenever he did it. How, I don’t know. Me, I had no idea what I was doing or what it meant. All I can tell you is it tasted dry.Article content I picked a different direction this time, though. Much as I like the country to the east, the country directly north of the city is beautiful as well. So with the sun hanging like a red ball in the morning sky, that’s where I went.
Up the road from them, I found a pair of trumpeter swans having breakfast in a weedy pond and just to the east of there, a young coot trying to balance itself as it walked along a log. The mist had gone now, evaporated again into the warming air, but the countryside still looked lovely so I kept rolling on.Mike Drew/Postmedia
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