Photo chain Challenge

[Ivophoto]

[John R]

The Horse or the highway. The horse wins because I want to try an IF look on this image.

JR

[Two23]

Sioux Center, Iowa


Kent in SD

[JNB_Rare]

1 HP engine.

[MattBurt]

[John R]

Linking to horses as animals. See the sheep is in the meadow and the cow is in...wait, what...the vineyard!

JR

[Rob C]

I've never seen grapes grow that way, like a roof. How American! Maybe it's a way of letting Santa Ana's wind flow harmlessly beneath; a new horticultural/vinicultural aerodynamic.

This makes me think of the dreadful events in California, a real tierra del fuego. Was this fire thing always a hazard there, and if so, how come planning permission allowed so much development in what must, clearly, always have been going to be in harm's way?

Rob

[KLaban]

I've never seen grapes grow that way, like a roof. How American! Maybe it's a way of letting Santa Ana's wind flow harmlessly beneath; a new horticultural/vinicultural aerodynamic.

This makes me think of the dreadful events in California, a real tierra del fuego. Was this fire thing always a hazard there, and if so, how come planning permission allowed so much development in what must, clearly, always have been going to be in harm's way?

Rob

De rigueur for most rural Greek homes.

[JNB_Rare]

Vineyard veil

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Vineyard veil

Cool photo. Is that an anti-hail net?

[Rob C]

De rigueur for most rural Greek homes.

Now you mention it in the domestic sense, perhaps I do remember seeing similar here in the Baleares, but can't think where, exactly. I know that many houses have a sort of framework over the patios where things grow, often just some kind of long trailer flowers like bougainvillea. I am thinking more in terms of the professional growers, which I imagine must be the scene in the photograph. All the commercial fields I know here are like the French: rows and rows of grape growing vertically. These look grim in winter when all you see are standing twigs.

[LesPalenik]

Leading lines - for vines leading to a lake

[JNB_Rare]

Cool photo. Is that an anti-hail net?

Anti-bird, I think. At a different vineyard down the road, they have automatic, random gun-blast sounds here and there throughout the vineyard. Very disconcerting for unaware humans, too! A group of us had just arrived at the winery and began a tour of the lands. One poor fellow had just put his hand out to pick a single grape from a bunch when the 'gun' went off. 

[John R]

Leading lines - for vines leading to a lake

This is same location and farmhouse Les. Fourth from the bottom image:
https://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=126367.1060

And this one. Mine was taken on hazy day. Uncanny similarities.

[KLaban]

Now you mention it in the domestic sense, perhaps I do remember seeing similar here in the Baleares, but can't think where, exactly. I know that many houses have a sort of framework over the patios where things grow, often just some kind of long trailer flowers like bougainvillea. I am thinking more in terms of the professional growers, which I imagine must be the scene in the photograph. All the commercial fields I know here are like the French: rows and rows of grape growing vertically. These look grim in winter when all you see are standing twigs.

The Greeks are truly a nation of gardeners. The ubiquitous attached pergola provides grapes for eating or wine production and provides much needed shade. Almost every area of suitable land is cultivated to produce fruit and veg. Terraces and patios see old olive oil cans with plants for eating and or decoration. But times are changing, the young show little interest. Ancient olive groves are abandoned or the trees dug up for export to the gardens of Kensington and Chelsea. Commercial production of grapes exists and there are some fine wines but the olive dominates the landscape.

   

[KLaban]

[Rob C]

Q.E.D.

:-)

[langier]

Grape vines in autumn, in my "back yard."

[MattBurt]

Local hay
IMGP2743.jpg by Matt Burt, on Flickr

[LesPalenik]

This is same location and farmhouse Les. Fourth from the bottom image:
https://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=126367.1060

And this one. Mine was taken on hazy day. Uncanny similarities.

Yes, John, it is the same vineyard. I visit it usually in the spring, and have never seen the nets. I have another image from there with dandelions between the tree rows.