Driving home from Tutwell...

[bunn]

I had to go to Tutwell.  It's close enough that I could have walked, if I'd had all day, but I did not so I took Helga the Saab.  For some reason I took photos on the way home.

Comments

[heartofoshun]

The one behind the truck reminds me of driving around where I grew up!

The picture with the rainbow is stunning!

[wellinghall]

I think the penultimate photo is of sugar beet, for cattle fodder, although I am by no means sure.

[pixel39]

I had initially supposed they were rutabagas (aka mangel-wurzels), since they are also grown as fodder in the UK, but on enlarging the photo those do indeed have a beet-like look about them. (There is a thriving industry in North Dakota making sugar from beets. I have driven past many many trucks carrying beets.)

[jane_somebody]

(Actually mangelwurzels are beets, whereas rutabagas are more related to turnips, but you are not alone in this misapprehension: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-man1.htm... )

[pixel39]

Aha! I was misinformed! We do not call rutabagas swedes here, I just call them nasty (they are on my list of Vegetables Which Other People Consider Edible). But then we have a rather significant population of people who came from Scandahoovia here in the upper Midwest and "Swede" means something entirely different. ;-)

[timetiger]

Such lovely colors.

[puddleshark]

What pleasingly rural scenes! I feel like the mystery veg pile should be mangelwurzels, for tradition's sake, though I dare say they are something far more modern.

And I love the shot of Helga the Magical Saab...

[bunn]

The name mangelwurzel is a fine and lovely thing.

[dinahprincedaly]

That first photo is magic, even more magic for me than the rainbow over the Saab :)