The Prairie Fields Afghan really does remind me of Kansas fields with the tall native grasses swaying, which I feel is represented in the offset fans in the blanket.  The straight columns represent the corn fields, in my mind.

You can work this in a single, soft color, or do the stripes as I did, which I changed colors every 6 rows. This isn’t required--I just had a lot of this particular yarn but it was all in a bunch of different colors!