FIELD REPORT
With our USA group of 11 we had the good fortune to
enter the near-Aldbourne formation on Friday morning, 3
August. I am sending you some of my ground shots of
this amazingly beautiful formation in wheat that we
spied from the A-419 driving from the M-4 exit towards
Aldbourne.
Also while we were in the formation, the farmer and his
son arrived and, while it was clear that he disapproved
of the "vandals" who made it according to him, he
nonetheless was pretty calm and allowed us to pay his
son "compensation" for any damage to his crop our visit
made rather than be angry and order us out of the
field. He even brought out his camera and took some
shots himself in the formation.
We all noticed several positive aspects of this
mature-wheat formation like the "fluffy" character of
how the wheat was laid down; the beautiful small swirled
circles within some of the triangles and the
multi-layering of the wheat at certain of the
intersections plus the very thin, very straight lines
that from the air give the "cubic" 3-D aspect to the
inner square/cubes of standing crop. I tried to
capture some of these features in my ground photos.
Several of our group also felt their hands and arms
begin to tingle as we entered the still-new
formation. It had an almost electric quality for us.
Most of us were content to stay in the formation for
about one hour, walking around it and then sitting down
in it, enjoying the return of some warmer and sunnier
weather to Wiltshire after all the recent rains and cold
spells. All in all it was a wonderful way for our
visitors - from the USA, Australia, New Zealand and
France - to begin their time in Wiltshire.
Chet Snow
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