Summer. Watching the wheat.
Corn and moss-lift, the brightest state the site ever reaches, and the one that gives the contrast guard the most work. Corn on chalk is roughly 1.9:1 and is refused everywhere the guard can see it.
Summer, in four numbers.
What changes on the site in summer.
Tokens and treatment
- Field pigment
- Corn #E9B93D becomes --season
- Secondary
- Moss-lift #7A8C41 becomes --season-2
- Illustration set
- Standing crop, full hedge, the combine parked and waiting
- Sky treatment
- Flat, high, hot — very little cloud in the plate
- Ambient line
- "Watching the wheat"
- Beast
- The barley mark, in full ear
Where it is stamped
- Root element
- data-season="summer"Server-side, so it never flashes
- Body class
- season-summerFor anything that needs a class rather than an attribute
- CSS
- [data-season="summer"] redefines --season and --season-2And nothing else
- Poster palette
- UntouchedThe interface does not move with the season
What is actually happening on the farm.
Watching the wheat
Which is most of what June is. There is very little to do and a great deal to worry about.
Fungicide timings
T2 at flag leaf, which is the spray that actually pays for itself.
Silage and hay
Cut in the window between two forecasts that disagree.
Winter barley comes off first
Usually mid-July, and it sets the tone for everything after.
The shop is at its busiest
Which has nothing to do with farming and everything to do with the school holidays.
The state, side by side with the other three.
| Season | Field pigment | Secondary | Ambient line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring | Moss #5C6B2F | Blossom #E9899E | Drilling spring barley |
| Summer — this one | Corn #E9B93D | Moss-Lift #7A8C41 | Watching the wheat |
| Autumn | Sunset #F0794A | Furrow #6B4A2E | Combining, weather permitting |
| Winter | Sky #7FB6D9 | Slate #5A656B | Hedging and walling |
The illustration set.
Every scene plate on this site is printed six times — reseeded land, re-inked sky, the subject nudged — and the summer set is the one that comes forward for these three months.
Which of the six a given page gets is decided by the page path rather than at random, so a card thumbnail and the hero it links to always show the same plate, but twelve pages sitting in one grid show twelve different pictures.
Plotting flips to "Nearly there" and the harvest window appears on every plot page.
- Printed states
- Six per subject
- Chosen by
- Page path, deterministically
Stamped server-side
So the palette never flashes on load.
No TTL
The season is the clock. It cannot go stale.
Two tokens move
--season and --season-2. Nothing else.
Nothing depends on it
No price, no availability, no legal text.
What the farm is doing in summer.
The farming year has the long version, with the dates and the reasons.
