This week, share a photograph that signifies transitions and change to you… while only showing us a small portion of any given moment.
Is it only me or is there a similarity in this week and last week’s challenges: transient – transition – time – impermanence – change; never mind it is only me. As I focused on a portion in time before the transition to the teenage years in my children’s lives last week, I supply a link to it here and my post for this week is done. But this change to my modus operandi leaves me strangely unfulfilled so lets give this week a go…
Normally when I think of wheat I think of it in its ripened stage and if you google wheat, it is indeed portrayed ripened in 95% + of images. Yet when I think back to 1992 someone made a remark that you cannot find a piece of ground as big as a coin which isn’t green in the area which I was visiting at that moment. But even then as I was in the wheat producing community of Caledon for a specific reason I just saw the green from afar. It took a weekend of camping last year and a mountain bike route to bring me into close contact with non ripe grain although it was in transition to become ripened already.
Wheat and its end product bread has played a very important role throughout the ages and has survived in various forms. The photo above is but a small portion of a wheat field but the ripened and processed version of it (flower) still inspire chefs and cooks to use it in thousands of different recipes, producing amazing smelling and tasty end results like the bread baked by my wife:
↓We camped on the farm Oewerzicht next to the Bergriver close to the town of Greyton in Western Cape South Africa. On the Saturday I did the mountain biking route and on the Sunday I did it again bringing my camera along. This path specifically made for biking is a small portion of the total route but it brought me up close and personal with the wheat as it goes directly through it. The entrepreneurial spirit of this farmer and interest in mountain biking opens up new opportunities as the grinding sound of cycle chains was not heard by the wheat a few years ago (but I am sure the sound is music in its ears, much better than the grinding sound of the mills!).
The word bread is used extensively in comparisons and metaphors. I belief that bread sustains but also gives life and changes lives:
“I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” The words of Jesus as recorded in John 6:51
I thought the same thing Abrie. My post last week would have done for this weeks!
Also that bread looks D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S!
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And it was D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S! In South Africa banting is big and also among some bloggers but there is room for all of us and our concepts about diet and culinary preference.
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vuurklip kan op brood alleen lewe!
https://vuurklip.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/rysplan/
https://vuurklip.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/wie-wil-nou-banting/
https://vuurklip.wordpress.com/2016/03/12/regte-egte-sourdough/
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Ja ek is nie ‘n brood geheelonthouer nie. Brood en sop en rooiwyn gaan goed saam. Lekker brood is presies dit. Geniet ook stokbrood met braaivleis, maar ons deeg (van die stokbrood) anders as joune word by kafee gekoop.
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Self. Daar is niks lekkerder as ‘n varsgebakte suurdeeg-brood met regte plaasbotter nie.
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Rêrig? Is daar rêrig níks lekkerder nie? Hehe.
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Om te eet nie Vuurklip. Daar is ‘n hele paar ander dinge waarvoor ek bereid is om selfs my brood op te offer 👼
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Goed geskryf Abrie, al het dit amper nie gebeur nie.😉 Veral die foto van die damwal vat jou skrywe mooi saam.
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Maar ek nie iets vir hierdie week geskryf nie 🙂 Ja ek vermoed nadat die wal gebreek het het die boer besluit die dam is nou ‘n gronddam onder die ou dam. Dankie Una
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Pragtige fotos Abrie and yes, I agree with with you that the topics should present more of a variety; a photo is after all by nature a reflection of a moment in time. Maybe we should put on our thinking hats and suggest a few original topics that we would like to reflect on?
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Dankie Hester. Dit is lekker vir my om iets te plaas oor ‘n onderwerp waaroor ek nie beheer het nie. Aan die anderkant deurdink ek nogal die onderwerpe en as die onderwerpe te soortgelyk is gaan dit aanleiding gee tot ‘n afname in gewildheid van die photo challenge of mense gaan sommer enigiets post, soos sommiges in elk geval doen.
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Pragtig veral die gebreekte damwal foto. Brood is dalk nie goed vir die konstitusie nie maar heeeeeerlik beslis. Met ‘jam’😉
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So ‘n bek moet jam kry, dromerige heerlike jam op. Dankie Dromer
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The wheat is very beautiful, Abrie, and your wife’s bread looks fantastic! Great post.
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Thanks Jane I really enjoyed the Jou(bert) reply a first ☺
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Beautiful post Abrie, I absolutely loved the fields from afar with the designs in them. And the bread looks seriously good enough to eat! Agree w your comments re the duplicate themes but maybe more challenging to have to post differently to the same subject 🙂
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Jy het voorwaar ‘n flukse vrou….. sy laat my aan die Spreuke 31 vrou dink met daardie brood van haar; ek val uit die bus uit daar. Die vers wat by my opgekom het terwyl ek lees is; “He that supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed, and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. Dit staan iewers in 2 Korinthiërs 9. Soos altyd mooi fotos 🙂
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Great post! Amazing pics! Now I know what the patterns are that I see from up when I fly.
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