It's Getting Riper ---

Forry snapped this picture this morning on our way home from church. This is the wheat field at the top of the hill above the coulee where Auntie Violet is parked. It looks ripe when you look across it, but when you look closer at the plants near the edge, you can see that many of the heads are still green.

I thrashed out one of the more golden heads (rolled it in between my palms until the wheat kernel was separated from the chaff) when I went for a walk this evening. While the kernels look ripe, you can dent them with your fingernail and they are still chewy. Forry chatted with Tyler (our tenant's youngest son) yesterday and he says they are hoping to start cutting on the 18th -- which is yet a week away.