Upper: Grain fields, mostly wheat, near Santo Domingo de la Calzada, La Rioja, Spain, May 2012.Middl
Upper: Grain fields, mostly wheat, near Santo Domingo de la Calzada, La Rioja, Spain, May 2012.Middle: Santo Domingo de la Calzada and surrounding grain fields, Camino Santiago in the foreground, and city in the middle distance, cold and rainy day, May 2012.Lower: Santo Domingo de la Calzada and surrounding grain fields, September 2011. The photo was taken on a day when the temperature climbed above 40 degrees C!While wine grapes are the signature crop of La Rioja, a much larger area is planted in grains, especially wheat, each year. Like all grain growing areas, the fields look entirely different in spring from the way they look at the end of summer. In mid-Spring the environs of Santo Domingo are lushly green, while in mid-September there is hardly a blade of green grass on trailsides. -- source link
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