Enjoying Life
Busy With The Moment
Lets catch up
Fall has eliminated gardening with flowers, picking bouquets, sweaty brows as weeding progresses.
It has brought a different joy into my life as September advanced into December leaving me dazed as how in the world did that happen so fast.
Many of my days are spent in the house in the cool days of December, My home has many, many large windows letting me enjoy nature from the rooms with a view. I take a lot of pictures now with the telescope lens, catchin sightings of nature like the squirell sitting under a feeder, eating the left overs from the birds. There is a guard on this particulare feeder that Dick put up in front of my computer room so only the birds can enjoy it. We leave the squirells have their choice of the other feeders we have in a different areas.
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| This is the feeder outside my computer window. The view is pretty dreary. Trees are almost bare, but there is still some green grass and a few shrubs hanging onto their leaves. The pillers with cement statues of horses frame the steps. Dick built the steps leaing down to the lower gardens, horse barn, chicken coop and the peacock's large pen. It also leads to the entrance of the Oak and Hickory tree woods that cuddle a lovely Babbeling Brook, that sings it song while it ripples around the many stones it holds captive. |
We had a lot of rain this past summer so the Brook is quite full and singing a loud song not like other summers end where it would almost be dried up and just trickeling through.
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| Dick sitting on one of the two chairs we have facing the Babbeling Brook. So peaceful a setting! |
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| Looking up into the canopy above the huge Oak. |
December 2016
Winter has set in, getting at least one snow fall a week. One week we got 10 inches covering everything. It was so peaceful, so beautiful. I love winter because of this very thing. Schedules are canseled because roads are bad, but eventually they are plowed out. We are on a back road and are last on their list to get cleared. During the time between we we are free of traffic. Time to grab a good book, sit in front of the big windows, glancing out inbetween watching the many birds flying to the feeders regardless of the blowing and heavy snow coming down.
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| This is the deer that has a crippled front right leg. She holds it back against her chest, and when she walks will lean the elbow part of the leg on the ground hobbeling with a deep limp. She somehow gets around pretty good regardless. Dick puts out two slices of hay for her. But she mostly eats on the wild things around here. We see her off and on hobbleing on the hill behind our home. |
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| Cardinal sitting on top of shepherd hook which holds small feeder. |
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| Squirrel guard is the round metal under the feeder. |
Heated birdbath is steaming from the fridged tempetures. Large feeder is behind it and filled for the squirrels and birds.
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| This Downy Woodpecker was swinging in the storm eating the suet in the small wire cage. |
Garden bench Dick used his metal art work on hold the 10 inches of snowfall we got in the last storm.
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| More feeders that the birds and squirrels use. Thistle is hanging from the shepherd's hook on far right of picture. |
Doves and finches sharing time at the large feeder in the snow storm.
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| Fresh snow fall in lower area holding the Chicken coop. Horse statues on cement pillers frame the wood steps Dick built several years ago. Leads to horse barn and Chicken coop. Three apple trees in back of coop and the other small trees are Crabapple along the path down to barn. |
Snow fall that coated the giant Spruce in background. We planted them 30 years ago. This area was then just a bare farm field on the hill and surrounding acres.
Nature makes me feel so close to God our Creator. He delights in us all. So patient to wait for us to turn to him in Praise for all his surprises, and answers to our prayers. Dick made me the I Believe sign with his metal art.
Sending you Blessing
and
Love
May your new year
bring you peace and joy!
Kate
