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TODAY'S PHOTOS OF MY YARD...          |
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That Pampas Grass is so tall this year, it's pushing on the eaves.....
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10/31/2020 2:59 am |
What kind of bird is that? Yesterday I heard a lot of gees flying south for the winter but could not see them. The hummingbirds left & went south about two weeks back. You are fortunate to live in such a beautiful place. The trees are magnificent and the views are so peaceful. Do you ever wander around in that beautiful sunlit meadow and think about those who were in that very same place before you & what they were thinking? I do that here. It brings an attachment to nature & the land. Somewhat like the native people here spoke about. Of course they used simple language. LOL Dang! I messed up the moment. LOL Please ignore the last part. On second thought when Ice & snow is out there their language may have suffered a little.LOL Party On!
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What kind of bird is that? Yesterday I heard a lot of gees flying south for the winter but could not see them. The hummingbirds left & went south about two weeks back. You are fortunate to live in such a beautiful place. The trees are magnificent and the views are so peaceful. Do you ever wander around in that beautiful sunlit meadow and think about those who were in that very same place before you & what they were thinking? I do that here. It brings an attachment to nature & the land. Somewhat like the native people here spoke about. Of course they used simple language. LOL Dang! I messed up the moment. LOL Please ignore the last part. On second thought when Ice & snow is out there their language may have suffered a little.LOL Party On! I do think a lot about who came before me and what they thought. When I was in my early 20s I found an arrow head in a field where I lived and discovered that a famous painter, who was my hero, had lived there some Summers a hundred years ago when she travelled around the coast painting abandoned Native villages and wrote books about it, which I'm still reading.
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10/31/2020 1:09 pm |
Yesterday I saw about 20 wild hogs scattered underneath trees in a pecan orchard along the highway here. They are getting to be a nuisance for the farmers.
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That's cool....I wonder why people don't hunt them?....I have spent quite a lot of time over the years on an island that is part of the same Archipelago as this one, but smaller......I have several dear, old friends there. The whole island is open grazing. as are several of the other islands. This means that animals are free to roam, and if you don't want them on your land, you have to fence them out. There are healthy deer populations on these islands, so you have to fence gardens and young orchards anyways.....in the many old orchards, the tree foliage is all neatly trimmed at the same height. Many years ago, there was a sheep farm on the island. When the farmer left the island, he left his whole flock and they have had the run of the island ever since. People regularly hunt the sheep....mutton stew is a Winter staple. There is a Norwegian traditional dish that is lamb and cabbage stewed together. I love it, but I rarely get to eat it, because I have no source for mutton.....So when I visit that little island, I always make a big batch of Fårekål ....I imagine that wild pigs fed on pecans are mighty tasty on the BBQ.
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Sparkle I recall when I was growing up eating mutton. It was horrible stuff. I do enjoy lamb though. We didn't have sheep but knew of a family who had sheep so they used to eat mutton a lot. Once in a while we would get invited there for a meal. I think I probably fed mine to the dog. It was the most unappetizing stuff I had ever eaten. Your pictures are lovely. We do live in a lovely part of the world. The maple trees in Vancouver were quite beautiful this year.
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Sparkle I recall when I was growing up eating mutton. It was horrible stuff. I do enjoy lamb though. We didn't have sheep but knew of a family who had sheep so they used to eat mutton a lot. Once in a while we would get invited there for a meal. I think I probably fed mine to the dog. It was the most unappetizing stuff I had ever eaten. Your pictures are lovely. We do live in a lovely part of the world. The maple trees in Vancouver were quite beautiful this year.
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Sparkle I recall when I was growing up eating mutton. It was horrible stuff. I do enjoy lamb though. We didn't have sheep but knew of a family who had sheep so they used to eat mutton a lot. Once in a while we would get invited there for a meal. I think I probably fed mine to the dog. It was the most unappetizing stuff I had ever eaten. Your pictures are lovely. We do live in a lovely part of the world. The maple trees in Vancouver were quite beautiful this year.
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Very nice autumn pictures of your yard. Are the 2 fawns still visiting you together? Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony - M. Gandhi
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Very nice autumn pictures of your yard. Are the 2 fawns still visiting you together? I was thinking of you today because I have been doing a lot of writing on my computer lately in both English and Norwegian. I keep forgetting I've switched my keyboard over to Norwegian and get muddled up.....I also write in French sometimes, but not often enough to get used to the keyboard and can't find the accents........I wondered how you fare with the different keyboards....Does German have letters and punctuation different than English?
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always loved the Japanese gardens in Vancouver this time of year, but I hear they are all closed ........
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I have the American keyboard here and use it for English and German writing. In German we have vowel mutations...... ä ö ü and ß ..... To type those letters, I press the alt key and three different numbers on the right side of the keyboard. For the French accents you press alt and also numbers on the right side..... That does not always work. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony - M. Gandhi
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Example: (aigue) é = alt + 0233 on the right side of the keyboard. When you release the alt key, the character will appear. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony - M. Gandhi
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How beautiful it is too. I love the rich warm colours, and the cute little blue bird and fawns.
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