Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Somewhere Over the Midwest


Somewhere Over the Midwest, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

The sheer number of fields is really amazing. I need to Wikipedia and find
out why the fields are in circles.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

crop circles. Aliens. Yep

Nara said...

This piqued my curiosity; I had to look it up. It's because they're using center-pivot irrigation, in which "a circular area centered on the pivot is irrigated, often creating a circular pattern in crops when viewed from above." Who knew! Cool picture.

Anonymous said...

Nara is correct. Let's see if I can paste something here

http://www.google.com/images?q=circular+irrigation&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7ADBF&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=rLRRTNijNov6sAOUtslP&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDAQsAQwAw&biw=1008&bih=589