So this is what oats look like.  Don’t think I’ve ever seen them up close.

Oats grow best in cool, wet summers, which disqualifies the part of Kansas I grew up in.  But there’s a whole lot of oats growin’ here in Manitoba.

And beans!  There’s a LOT of beans in Nebraska and Iowa, but we almost didn’t recognize these.

Beans in the midwest are planted with a planter in wide rows, and beans in Manitoba (these at least, and others we saw) are planted with a seeder, so they’re all close together and they don’t have the distinct rows that I’m used to seeing.

Oats on the left, beans on the right.  Iceberg right ahead!  Oh, nope. Just storm clouds looming. Beautiful.