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Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...
A field of sunflowers in Cardejón, Spain (2012) A field of rapeseeds in Kärkölä, Finland (2010) In agriculture, a field is an area of land, enclosed or otherwise, used for agricultural purposes such as cultivating crops or as a paddock or other enclosure for livestock. A field may also be an area left to lie fallow or as arable land. [1]
Tolworth Court Farm Fields is a 43.3 hectare (107 acre) Local Nature Reserve (LNR) in Tolworth in the Royal Borough of Kingston, London. It was designated an LNR in 2004 due to its historical and ecological significance.
The artificially straightened river Adur was re-engineered to allow it to meander and flood, bringing wading birds like green sandpipers and lapwings back to the farm. The pasture-fed beef turned out to be a valuable and nutritious commodity, while the rewilded estate started to make money from tourists and wildlife watchers.
Green Wheat Field with Cypress (French: Champ de blé vert avec cyprès) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Dutch Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh.It is held by the National Gallery Prague, displayed at the Trade Fair Palace (Veletržní palác) in the district of Holešovice, where the painting is known as Zelené obilí ("Green wheat").
Van Gogh describes the ripening Green Wheat Field with Cypress painted in June: "a field of wheat turning yellow, surrounded by blackberry bushes and green shrubs. At the end of the field there is a little house with a tall somber cypress which stands out against the far-off hills with their violet-like and bluish tones, and against a sky the ...
Blanchman's Farm is a 9.4-hectare (23-acre) Local Nature Reserve in Warlingham in Surrey. It is owned by Tandridge District Council and managed by the Blanchman's Farm Committee and the Downlands Countryside Project. [1] [2] This site has woodland, two meadows, a pond and an orchard. Fauna include foxes, roe deer, wood mice and black hairstreak ...
Blue House Farm is a 242.8-hectare (600-acre) nature reserve and farm in North Fambridge, on the north bank of the River Crouch between Burnham-on-Crouch and South Woodham Ferrers in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. [1] Most of the site is in of the Crouch and Roach Estuaries Site of Special Scientific Interest. [2]