I am sure you remember.
The idea was that I would put a table and chairs out into the field and then the wheat would grow up around the table and chairs and I would sneak a table full of food and wine and take a photo.
It seemed like a great idea at the time!
Simple right? I put out the chairs. The wheat grew. My idea was to get the shots when the wheat ripened to a golden field. With bread and wine on the table.
And it kept on growing in this lovely dry cool summer.
… and grew until the table and chairs were totally consumed in wheat.
And I actually had trouble finding the furniture.
The wheat is dense and beautiful but the table and two chairs are hidden.
Made for some lovely shots though.
But my idea of a dinner party out in the wheat will need to be rethought.
Maybe next time – in three years I might add due to crop rotation – I will either get taller furniture or take the images before the wheat gets too high.
Fun!
Back to the drawing board.
Have a lovely Sunday
Celi
Overcast today with a 95% chance of 1/2 an inch of rain. Thank You Weather God! Lets hope we are not in the 5% of the region that gets nothing.
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30 responses to “An Underwhelming Outcome”
That video is soothing. I could watch it forever. And I really love how the wheat has grown around and through the table and chairs, though I’m sorry your plan did not work out.
Plans are like journeys – I got lots of good shots along the way!
Not the shot you were aiming for, but lovely in its own way! I envy you your fields of green!
It is like being surrounded in a field of green.
The Header should be AN Underwhelming Outcome but my internet is so bad today that I posted super fast when it popped up for a minute and now; I can’t get back in to change it.
Mice and men and all their plans!!
And now you have to carefully remove them. It was a cool idea, but—yep, it didn’t work 🙂
Yes – I carried them all out. But the photos of them being overgrown are good.
Yes they are—photos speak words loudly! 🙂
I do like the idea!
Yes! Like life – it is a work in progress!
It might not have been what you were looking to achieve but l love what happened. Just goes to show that nature will always out!
Yes! I love plans like this. That are months in the making. You never quite know where things will go!
It was an inspired idea – quite Detroit or Hipgnosis! Perhaps it would work if there was a small unplanted square (or circle) with furniture inside. Take a shot of the dinner from a tall step ladder…
Yes! My biggest problem was getting IN without trampling the brittle wheat.
In the end I just walked out there and apologized a lot. Maybe I should put the ladder in first as well. Then then the wheat would grow around that too! Leaving me an untrammeled area.
That sounds like a very good idea!
Plus I will be able to easily find the set up!! 😂
Ha ha ha!
Well at least you found them! As Charlotte said, the video is lovely with the wind and waving wheat. I think perhaps the table and chairs might be rather sad to be out of their spots listening to and watching the field change day by day. Think of all they have witnessed in their very non-human way 😉
They are right at the edge of the field now. Still observing!
Oh my a good idea got over grown Very happy wheat tho’! Cheers! xoxo
Yes the wheat is looking great!!
Yippee! Three cheers for the healthy wheat! Gorgeous field !
Why not refer to it as ‘an installation’, a work of art in action! Lovely outcome!
You have a lot of patience and vision. Maybe an airship? Hover over the field and break bread? We await the next crop rotation! Cheers.
Soothing is the word. Lovely. And the birdsong. I’ve never had the privilege of seeing wheat growing.
Hey you learned something. This is why I kept a gardening journal to record my successes and bungles so next time I do better.
My tortoises covet that mulberry!
I have many! I would love a tortoise- but you know that already!!
Their poop makes the BEST fertilizer!
It was a good idea at the time.
Maybe next time the world’s smallest crop circles…? But no, that would be a waste of perfectly good wheat.