In my travels around the Bismarck-Mandan area, I have now had two occasions where I’m surprised by a well sticking out of the middle of a wheat field. I’m no farm kid, but it seems a little odd to me. Why would a hand-pump well be sticking out of a seemingly arbitrary spot in the middle of a field? Isn’t it a pain cutting around it? I guess not.

This is a different well from the one I spotted north of Bismarck early this summer. Both are logged in my GPS in case there are some dramatic skies that could benefit from being photographed with a well in the foreground!