Rural Wallpaper: Shit, and the Means to Spread It.

Though not on this particular day: the cowshed effluent was frozen solid.

P.S I pride myself with choosing quality subjects. It’s so important.

Rural Wallpaper: Kicking Up the Dust

Wallpaper 634: Fuzzy Field

Here’s how it might look on your computer…

Rural Wallpaper: Remembering Summer

When you’re half-way through an English Winter, it’s hard to remember the preceding Summer…

Wallpaper 630: No Weekends For Farmers!

Portrait Gallery 140: Rusty Wire Fence and a Flowery Dick Plant

I suppose it could have been worse: imagine the scene if it had been titled, Flowery Wire Fence and a Rusty Dick Plant. It’s possible!

A Lifeline for Nature

In England many farmers are paid to leave parts of their land fallow for several years, and turn it over to nature. Some go so far as to sow seeds of plants known to be of benefit to endangered species. The results have been very heart-warming to those who give a damn about the creatures that share this land with us. And areas that would otherwise be an uninteresting mono-culture, look like this…

And this…

If we keep this up, who knows, we may yet save the world from ourselves.