Note : Also available from "The Opinion Journal" and Winds of Change . As always, big thanks to James Taranto and Joe Katzman for their support of the series, and to all my readers and fellow bloggers whose encouragement has kept it going for over a year now. Across Afghanistan, good news for the farmers, and the rest of the population: The country's farms are alive again. Seven years of drought had left fields monochrome plains of brown dust. But good snows and rains have many Afghans seeing color again -- seas of golden wheat undulate in the breeze, green apricot trees are plump with yellow fruit, melons of every hue dot fields. It is much-needed relief for impoverished farmers as well as the estimated 3.4 million Afghans who have been relying on food handouts from overburdened international aid groups. One wheat farmer sees the end of the drought as a sign that God is pleased with the country's fledgling democracy.…