Homestead on a vast field, against a vast horizon.
We spent the past two days driving through North Dakota and Montana, so vast horizons have been central on my mind. Montana is known as Big Sky Country, and with a big sky comes a big horizon, and big wheat fields, and big trains.
I was talking with the young owner of a cafe we stopped at for coffee, in a small town on Highway 2 in Montana. She was saying that the Harvest Lunch they sell is sometimes bought by people going to the doctor or dentist. I commented that there isn’t anything between towns – and she quickly said “just wheat.” That is what they grow a lot of in Montana. They are harvesting and they need lots of big trucks, grain elevators and trains to get the wheat to other places.
Barn against the Rocky Mountains on the horizon.
And that is what we saw as we looked towards the horizon; wheat fields with small patches of green that signify a farmstead, with grain silos, grain elevators, and long trains along the highway.
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Great story and photos for the HHH! Thanks for taking us to Montana, Pat!
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I looked up wheat in Montana and found there is non-GMO wheat … good for them! great photos Pat 🙂
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Thanks for you added information – and compliment. 🙂
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thank you for your storytelling about Montana: “I commented that there isn’t anything between towns – and she quickly said “just wheat.” That is what they grow a lot of in Montana. They are harvesting and they need lots of big trucks, grain elevators and trains to get the wheat to other places…”
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Great photos. Have always want to go to Montana. Maybe one of these days ….
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Jamie, I was so fascinated by both North Dakota and Montana that I never got bored with the vast prairie and endless fields. Maybe because it was harvest time there was so much going on – and of course I was always framing photos that might capture the beauty of their every day existence.
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