Today's landscape photo features rape. It's not in the foreground. It's in the background. See it?
It's the yellow plant that dominates the landscape of the Czech Republic. Rape is prized for the oil in its seed, which once was known as rapeseed oil, but is sold in the United States under the far more marketable name of "canola." The farmland of the Czech Republic has been replanted as far as the eye can see in rape, pursuant to E.U. mandates on biofuels and renewable energy. Crops that had been grown for decades, even centuries, are gone and all that is left is the rape.
This photo was from outside Kuks, Czechia, near Betlém (translation: Bethlehem), a nativity scene that is found walking through a beautiful section of forest.
Visited May 2019.
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