Late afternoon sunlight illuminates a cut wheat field as large clouds fill the sky, near St. Francis, KS

Sunlight breaks after a summer storm to illuminate a wheat field and a rainbow in Yuma County, Colorado

A shadow moves across a gleaned wheat field in central Kansas

Reflected light and color in the Arkansas River Valley of Southern Colorado

A rainbow appears just after a storm passes through the high plains of Colorado.

Golden wheat under a summer sky in central Kansas

Sunrise colors the sky behind a working windmill in Lincoln County, Kansas

A grain elevator rises in the distance behind a wheat field in tiny Carlton, Kansas

A surviving windmill stands against the western sky in the Pawnee Grasslands of eastern Colorado.

Golden field of wheat, ready for harvest, near Abilene, Kansas

White grain elevators stand against the a blue summer afternoon sky in Blue Rapids, Kansas

A pathway converges to the horizon in gleaned wheat field, Lincoln County, Kansas.