Bright purple fields...

I drive past this one field at least oce a day, on my way home from work. Like most places around here, it lies on a 2 lane highway with no shoulder and no place to pull over or even slow down. It's a wide open field of grass and weeds kept tidy by a few livestock and fenced in by some twisted trees. What makes this field remarkable, though, is that is has a huge (40 yards sq) patch, right in the middle of the brown and green, that's BRIGHT purple. It is amazing and looks like a purple blob from outer space has landed and is spreading out to take over the planet one patch at a time. In reality, and I make it my mission to get a photo of the actual field (the one to the left is off google), it is a field of wild lavender. Researching it to find the photo, I even found recipes for cooking with lavender, including a recipe for lavender jelly.