My second post of the day....

I finally thought to upload Autumn to Imeem and at last, I can embed the full song here. I could find it before but it would only allow me to embed 30 second sound bites. I really don't understand how that works.

For those of you familiar with Frankenstein and Free Ride by The Edgar Winter Group, let me assure you this is nothing like those. If I had not actually had the album in my hands and played it myself, I would never have believed it was the Edgar Winter Group. But then I was never a great fan of theirs....I could listen to them. But I either tend to love a song with all my heart and will listen to it over and over, or else I don't care a thing about listening to it.
Anyway, I love the song and these pictures were taken on the way home from Merom last Friday...can you believe the difference between the posts I did from earlier that day and these images. They are typical winter skies. They are all drive-by shots...so just a tad bit blurry if you look close. Well, you don't have to look close at the one with the crows. But they give the mood of the song and the mood I felt when I took it so I am posting it anyway....

From spring to fall

The dogwood is probably my favorite of the flowering trees/shrubs...not sure what its exact classification is.
But I love how we go from the above look of spring....
to these glorious colors of the fall.

Leftovers....

These are some pictures that for one reason or another I had meant to post before now, but just didn't get it done. This first is not such a great picture; it is a drive-by shot...you can see the dirty windshield in it. And I feel like it is just a tad bit blurred. It isn't a great shot...but I still just love this house. I wonder how old it is...it is surely old. But even if it isn't, I love the fact that is made of rock. Just LOVE it.
The one below was taken early in the fall...I do love the color and simplicity of this shot.
Look at this...just look where it is growing. First this closer view....
Then this one where I am not zoomed in.
Now, this is not a true macro or anything like that. It is just a cropped area
from the shot below. I like feathers.....
When I worked at the orchard I would sometimes collect hawk and turkey feathers and stick them on the tractor...I did not know that it is totally illegal to have them in your possession. I think it is a federal law...and though I may be mistaken, I think only Indians are allowed to own the real thing from a bird of prey. I just did a quick search; check out some laws here....I just learned that we are not supposed to have bird nests in our possession either. I'm not sure if that includes all nests or not.

All the time I worked at the orchard there was a pair of hawks that I seen quite often...probably would have seen them every day had I noticed. I watched them enough...I considered them 'ours' as if we owned them. But they stayed there, and they raised their young there...and I am sure they killed dozens and dozens and dozens of mice in the orchard. I loved them for that reason alone. Once or twice, one of them landed in an apple tree not too far from me..I got down off my picker to see how close I could get to it. That was two trees away--probably about 20 feet from it.

Sometimes when we mowed under the trees, the hawks would follow not too far away. I didn't know it till I worked there, but mice are hard on apple trees. The burrow in and around the roots, and and can do a lot of damage to the roots. You just would not believe the runways they will have under the trees.