Dairy Daze...and Now Beyond

 Ellen took this cool picture this past April.  I think it was warming up a bit finally and so the youth group at church had a bonfire one Wednesday night.  If I remember correctly they had S'mores and all that jazz. Now that fall is upon us, it just seems appropriate to post this picture because I think it's coming back up S'mores weather again.   I have used this picture as a screen saver on the iPad for months since she took it.  I will have to wait and see if she can get another cool picture for me. 

 A walk in the woods always awakens my fanciful side.  If you hadn’t noticed, I enjoy photographing objects and scenes that pique my curiosity.  I enjoy pondering the stories that might be contained within the pictures. An image can be very evocative to the well-read.  For instance, what sort of story comes to mind should you see a picture of a lamp post in a snowy wood?  How about a young redhead in a too-tight yellowish-gray wincey dress?  An old-fashioned honey pot on a counter?  A round, green wooden door?   Hmmm…so many fun stories.   This morning I took this picture with the intention of capturing the old winding grapevine.  But as I looked closer I saw thought, “I seem to have taken a shot of someone’s front porch.”  Can you see it?   The pile of flood debris makes a great shelter for the main hole to someone’s underground house.  The vine would be a sky bridge to the tree tops.  And along it the artfully draped shed bark from the dying half of the tree might be someone’s laundr

 Autumn fell upon us today.  Yesterday it was summer; temps soared quite close to 100, this morning it rained and was quite cool. In celebration Bella and I forsook walls and fenced gardens and leashes and took off the to wilds.   It has been many months since we have had the time to enjoy a walk. I had to take this photo of Bella while she was yet on the leash, because when she’s off leash, she is just a blur.   This is what I see of her when she is loose:   Can you spot her? The past couple of years have been full of uncertainty and loss for me personally and our world is full of much uncertainty and confusion.  But to the wilds I took my grief and I mixed it with the peace and stillness and wonder of the Creator’s creation I found along Four Mile Creek today.  And there, however brief it may be, I found a surcease from the sorrows and cares of this world. Join me and Bella on our walkabout today.  After a summer of drought the creek is quite dry, but it still flows with leaves float

 At least I hope it’s progress.  I finally have this set up so I can blog from the iPad…now that the iPad is about ready to crash and burn.   Anyway.  Since blogger changed the way they allow you to post, it’s a bit more of a process.  Also, since Gary doesn’t go out to do milking any more, he is in on the laptop more often.  The laptop is where I had done my blogging for the past…oh, 8+ years …ish.   So now I can take pics with the iPad and add them to blog posts right away instead of putting them on a private post on Facebook, downloading them to the laptop, THEN putting them on here.  It was a bit of a process.   I’ll be able to blog while we are on the road, too.  As long as we have wifi. Fun stuff!   Here’s a random picture to celebrate!   This is the Smudge!  Sunday afternoons are for napping here.  Just like the fun children’s book, “The Napping House” by Audrey Wood!  I was lying on the loveseat, Gary was stretched out on the bed and you can see where the other two were!   Fun