Thursday, November 01, 2012

Color my world

As I type the clouds are racing by with glimpses of blue showing through. It's been wet-wet-wet since Monday night, so I'd better get my inside stuff squared away and exercise a certain cooped-up young horse so he continues making progress.

Rain and sunbeams were dueling this morning during chores, and I kept getting distracted from my tasks by glimpses of glory. And once my focus is on photography, I see images I want to capture everywhere I look, glorious or not. Lucky for me, I have a blog on which to share them! ;-)
Scenes like this make me want to break out in the "Hallelujah Chorus"!
Thanks to moss, our trees have color even after their leaves fall
It was windy last night; can you tell?
A Speckled Sussex enjoying the by-products of my labors
Pretty Peaches
View from the barn this morning
View OF the barn this morning, and the tree Rick pruned
Yesterday Kelly shared photos of her farm, and this morning Sandra showed some scenes from hers (with snow from Storm Sandy!). I haven't had the privilege of visiting very many of my blogpals (a few more have visited here, which is fun!), so I love getting glimpses of their lives and locations. I figure I'm not the only one who enjoys such glimpses, so I took the photo above and below with that in mind. This is my view looking east from the top of our middle pasture, along the driveway leading to our house. (Our driveway enters our property at its SW corner, runs along the upper pasture, then splits, with one spur going north to the house and the other going east to the barn. Keep in mind we only have five acres; think small!)

When I returned from doing chores, Rick and Brian were hard at work on the tractor. Rick has been building a manure fork attachment for the bucket of the little Kubota; we're hoping this makes the heretofore back-breaking task of stripping the sheep folds much, much easier. I am so thankful for my handy husband – and my dad, for giving us this handy tractor!
That's it for today, from . . .

12 comments:

thecrazysheeplady said...

I love your views!!! And that fork is going to come in way handy :-).

Mama Pea said...

I, too, love to see pictures of other bloggers' surroundings/property. For some reason, it adds to the person and voice blogging. You really live in a lovely area. Our leaves are nearly completely gone now. We are into what I call Bleak November waiting for snow to fall so the landscape is pretty again.

C-ingspots said...

Very pretty colors and view! And, that manure fork looks positively dangerous. :) Here in Mac, we've had no rain at all today, even big patches of blue sky! Hurray!!

Thistle Cove Farm said...

No, lucky us because you have a blog and take such wonderful pictures! You're right...Rick is clever and bless the men in your life for taking such good care of you.

Thistle Cove Farm said...

oops...I'm tired and forgot my manners...thank you for the kind mention. it got above freezing today but I still had to use the tractor to plow out the driveway. then, I had to use the grain shovel to clear a path through the gate.
I'm headed to bed, after taking aspirin, for some good sleep!

Mary Ann said...

Oh my goodness... what a wonderful attachment for the Kubota, and a nifty little tractor. It's funny, Michelle, I thought you had many more acres than five!

Leigh said...

It's true, it is fun to get glimpses of other people's lives. I wonder why we're often so reluctant to share?

Michelle said...

Yep, it already has. :-)

Michelle said...

We don't get much snow, so it's a good thing we get bright green in the winter!

Michelle said...

Can you believe Brian was operating the tractor with that scary-looking attachment? And doing it well!

Michelle said...

Thank-you, Sandra - and yes, I am thankful for the men in my life and try not to ever take them for granted.

Michelle said...

Nope, just a little plot here. Just curious; what made you think we had more acreage?