This time of year you may venture out of city limits a little bit and see a mirage of sorts. Crest a hill or turn a corner and it looks like there’s a lake ahead…but as you approach, the lake becomes a sea of little blue flowers! That would be a field of flax, or so I’m told. I’m not a farmer.

I found this field, complete with a fallen farmhouse, close to Douglas Bay over the weekend. That’s just west of the National Guard’s training facility. I’m afraid I wasn’t able to catch the effect that makes this field look like a body of water, but I haven’t given up. There are similar fields just north of Bismarck, and I would like to try again while they’re still in bloom.