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In today's science lesson, we will learn that 

sun + rain = stuff grows!

Ok, not a news flash?  Maybe not, but Kansas is absolutely busting at the seams with gorgeousness as a result of a month of rain (May) followed by lots of sun the past couple of weeks.

The wheat is SO. CLOSE. to being ready for harvest.  My family (who lives about 60 miles south of our farm) actually started cutting wheat over a week ago, before getting rained out for several days.  The Farmer still hasn't started cutting his wheat, but he expects to start tomorrow (unless it rains tonight).

It is golden and beautiful!  The other day I went to go snap a few pictures of it in its ripe stage before it gets cut.

 

A few days ago we had a little rain shower move through.  Once it moved to our east, I saw a faint rainbow and took a few pictures on my phone.  Then I went inside to eat a piece of pie, and pretty soon The Farmer came running in.  He was on the phone with someone, but motioned to me frantically to come outside.  I ran outside and saw the most vivid rainbow I have ever seen.  It was so close that the color appeared in front of the tree row about a mile and a half from our house!

 

Of course, my little camera didn't fully capture the beauty of it, but it is still a cool picture.

Sometimes I get a little bored on my drive home from work (my job is a 30 minute commute).  I was driving home yesterday noticing how blue the sky looked, and then I drove by the most lush, green corn field.  I have no idea whose field it was, but I decided to stop and take some pictures.

 

How lucky am I, to get these kinds of views on my daily commute?!  I don't think I could handle a 30 minute commute in heavy city traffic, but I don't mind it when I get to zip down the highway doing 70 mph and looking at all this beauty.