A Wheat Crop and Three Planets

They finally harvested the wheat out back. It seems about three weeks too late—we’ve had unusual rain twice since early June and some of the crop seems to be going a bit black—but it will probably fetch a good price anyway. Yolo County did well, agriculturally, last year, and this year seems likely to follow suit at least in certain crops.

There was also a crop of planets to look at this evening; Mercury, Venus, and Saturn were all close together in the western sky at sunset. I was at work till after dark, having gone in for a quick session after dinner, and ran into Numenius heading home with his binoculars having spotted all three.

Mars, then, in August…