Grain Harvest Time, to some a fifth Season

                Rainy Day                                                          ©Greg Patch

The Sea oats are rained on just after ripe peak. Some birds come through feasting on the sweet morsels. There's not enough to harvest for my own use, the birds need to eat and the oats need to replenish themselves with fertile seed. Traditional cultures celebrate at the harvest times of their grains; wheat, oats, barley, spelt, corn, rye, millet, kasha, rice, etc. In northern European cultures this was the season of Lammas (pr. loaf mas), Aug 1st is usually a day of celebration, people feasting on the bounties of grains, staple to good health, for most. Here, after peak ripeness, the rain comes and turns the grain downward on its natural cycle with a little saturating water for nourishment, initiating its fall to the ground as a fertile seed to be held by the earth, regenerating for next spring.