A Sunny Day in Paraguay
Sep 15, 2012
For those who've been wondering: this is what the landscape looks like in extreme northern Paraguay, near the Brazilian border.
Hole in the Clouds
Tag: farmland
Well, Yeah, Tuscany
Nov 9, 2013
Villa at sunrise, San Quirico d'Orcia.
Limestone Landscape
Nov 19, 2014
"Deep in the Guangxi Province of China," by Trey Ratcliff.
As the Crow Flies Over the Canaries
Mar 16, 2016
A birdseye view of farmland on the volcanic slopes of the Canary Islands.
Four Hundred Thirty-Eight Miles Above the City
Feb 20, 2017
On the morning of May 13, 2016, NASA's Landsat 8 satellite collected thermal, infrared, and visible-light data from high above the city of Shangqiu, home to more than 1.5 million people in the midst of the wheat, cotton, corn and sesame fields of the North China Plain.
Shangqiu is a transportation hub, located at the junction of China's major north-south and east-west railroads. Also, the largest frozen-food processing company in China is headquartered there.
The lush agricultural land surrounding the city shows up as deep green in this image because Landsat's sensors are particularly sensitive to the vigorous plant growth characteristic of freshly planted fields in mid-spring.
The small brownish blotches in the farmland are agricultural villages. Almost 6 million people live in villages in the Shangqiu hinterland.
Spring Comes to Cornwall
Mar 22, 2018
The Cornish daffodil fields produce 90 percent of England's commercial daffodil crop. In my neck of the woods, almost 5,000 miles from Cornwall, daffodils are blooming noncommercially even as we speak.
Perhaps in your neighborhood they're already fading, or maybe the new tips of their leaves are still hidden in the snow–no matter; spring is trundling on in these days, and if it's early spring, There Will Be Daffodils.
