One day we drove to the half-abandoned town of Babunci on the other side of the fjord, where we plucked a sweet fruit called murva from the trees and watched villagers harvest wheat along the road.
Through the middle of the wheat, a rutted road slices to the horizon and disappears beneath the clouds.
Homesteaders came in droves, to stake farms, open sawmills and grocery stores, plant wheat and build roads.
Until two months ago, few outsiders bothered to visit Alewa, a dusty village in north India, surrounded for miles by little more than fields of wheat and potholed roads.
IN THE drought-stricken village of Shanhou, straw-hatted farmers are busy spreading grains of wheat on the roads to dry in the hot sun.
More flat steppe and wheat stubble lined the road from Kairouan to El Jem, which rewarded us with a herd of camels.
He's walking along a dusty road between wheat fields in Kosovo with Lt. Gen. Juan Ortuno, the Spanish commander of the NATO troops, and two Kosovar politicians beside him, while a TV crew retreats slowly backward, recording their advance.
Ripe wheat stood to the road verges, yellow and thick and rocking in the hot dry breeze that funneled dust through our car windows and left my lips coated.
A private company is trying to install a landfill to dispose of solid drilling waste on a golden 160-acre wheat field across the road from Mike and Kim Sorenson's farmhouse.
The effects of farming system on plant density and flowering of dicotyledonous herbs of high value for bees were investigated in 14 organic and 14 conventional winter wheat fields and adjacent road verges.
After a long sojourn on roads among wheat fields, the world, in the last few days, has turned green; pines along the road, farmland that looks lush instead of baked, and the Pend Oreille River, which runs wide and purple-blue and opens into a bay at Sandpoint.
