Outdoors!

I was so whiny in my last post, I hope I didn't drive everyone away! No more whining!

a $5 wreath from the hospice thrift store

As Henny Penny noted, the weather is cool, the light is slanted, the outdoors are beckoning us, and we must go out to see what autumn is offering this year. I took along my tea (herbal, from my herb bed, with a neighbor's honey).

My chickens:

Two chicks drinking:

The orchard where they wander and nibble:

The pasture in morning light:

The pasture dog. She loves to run.

The tall pine tree. It figures in a little picture book I still need to paint a cover for:

The garden is long gone to sleep for the end of the year. Its fence was blown over during Dorian and it's thick with weeds.

We'll be rethinking our garden next year. The okra has slowed at last. Sweet potatoes will be dug soon.

Speaking of Dorian, she ripped some roofing off a neighbor's pole barn.

North of us, the big farm. Our terrain is flat as a flitter!

We'll have a burn pile soon. At last we've had rain.

Ned, patrolling his domain.

The fence between the orchard and the pasture is covered each year in grapevine that (sadly) doesn't get enough light (thanks to the pecan trees) to bear any grapes. The fence is sagging with its weight.

Today I get to stay home! I'll paint a little, run errands with the hubby, do a little laundry, practice piano,  and perhaps do a little editing. I'm listening to Christmas music, another old LP.

It's nice to have a slow day without commitments elsewhere, isn't it?