100 feet to clear of snow to the chicken coop cum compound…
… or 1/4 mile up an unplowed dirt road and then 1/4 up the hill - plowing as you go, and don’t forget the gates - to bring hay to the cattle?
Makes you appreciate all the hard physical labor, planning, resourcefulness & ingenuity [...]
Read More..>>To go or not to go?
She went.
She is - after all - partly Turkish Van.
Comments(3) Can you guess which one is the river and which one is the road (and that’s less water running through than early this morning)
No matter, we are stuck here! And the rain’s not over yet.
First order of the day was to move the chicken to higher - and drier - pasture, since the one where [...]
Read More..>>First Shirley poppy (Papaver rhoeas), one of my favorite flowers that I let seed all over the garden.
They come on the heel of the orange-y wispy field poppies, and they come in shade of pinks and reds, from the clearest vermilion to dark wine; some have black crosses as their center, other white blotches. They [...]
Read More..>>Actually not from the woods but from a very nice garden that was open during Virginia Historic Garden Week. But the dogwoods are blooming in the woods too - although the last couple of very hot days is shortening the bloom time. Other than that, it’s been a fabulous spring for dogwoods, rebuds, sassafras [...]
Read More..>>Spring is blue and red: blue clear sky and red maple flowers.
Indeed the maples are blooming now, the earliest single species source of nectar and pollen for our bees.
Read More..>>Something softly went through the hollow last night, dropping huge handfuls of wet snow all over. The snow on the ground was gone by mid-morning, but wads of sticky whiteness remained in shrubs and dry grasses - looking like cotton candy.
Meanwhile, inside under the shop lights, seeds planted earlier this month have germinated, true leaves [...]
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