They feed on the seeds of spinifex, grass seeds, and sometimes ripening wheat.

The parlor glowed with warm colors; reds and rich browns, the gold of ripening wheat.

Across the evenly plowed ridges, between rows of ripening wheat, a boy of thirteen walked, steadily and unhurried.

The night wind from the west was light, still warm, and carried the mixed odors of ripening wheat and death.

Sailing up and down the slopes of ripening wheat.

Her hair was the color of ripening wheat and tumbled to her bare shoulders in snaking spirals.

Just outside the village, across a field of ripening wheat, two thin smokestacks at a brick kiln belched black smoke into the sky.

Near the town was a great field of ripening wheat, golden when the sun shone.

Hair the colors of ripening wheat and rich, dark honey surrounded a beautiful yet characterless face.

Mr. Hawamdeh said farmers complained that winds had affected the ripening wheat this year.