A Repost From Eight Years Ago~More Pictures...Fewer Words

It is...was a beautiful day. Warm, windy, and did I say wonderfully, comfortingly warm!
No snow, no rain, only mud left over from both.

Started at the barn with my four God-Given equine treasures.

(Refer to previous post, My Mistakes, My Glories.)
All not recently groomed with their winter coats.

As you can see the wind is blowing.

I took pictures of Arrow's whorls so I can get them read by some whorl experts (y'all!). 

In this picture you can see plainly why he is dubbed Broken Arrow.

Knot was too busy eating to smile for the camera.

Showing Magic's blue eye.

It was a day for muck boots, not these!
 It was warm enough that the mud felt quite wonderful pouring through all the holes
while I was trying to keep my balance.

Maggie and Lil anticipating the walk
Then we walked.

One of five ponds we have. This is the New pond, meaning it was built in the last twenty years. We also have the Top Pond, the Highline Pond, the Frog or Hog Pond and the Spring Pond.

Parts of the creek no one sees

Another hidden jewel

Help! I've lost my feet!
The sky darkens!
Watching Lil hunt a varmint.
Enjoyed the day and took many pictures.

and found my feet!

This post was written eight years ago, two months after I entered the blogosphere. Circumstances may have changed but I think I may be about the same.

Happy Holidays!

Moss Walk

We followed the sandy road

Lil wanted to play stick

Ki-Anne made splashes again and again.

Checked the May Apple crop

and traveled through the old orchard that was a hundred years or more.

The walk was up hill and hot.

Lil found a treasure...a water hole behind a terrace doing its job.

The trapped rain water felt so good and cool

even prissy Lizzy had a sit down.

I gathered moss,

with low environmental impact, 

 to add to my water garden.

It makes an amazing natural filter

and it grows! 

Dog Walk

The skies were blue and the water had receded.

We, meaning me and the dogs,

began our damage assessment.

Lizzy didn't like where I crossed 

so she just followed me from across the creek.

Bonnie had no trouble crossing anywhere.

The difference may be the eighty pounds Bonnie weighs

and the fact she loves water

Or it could simply be Lizzy is VERY selective.

Walking On The Dry Side

I walked the dry creek which is really dry this time,

more dry than I've ever seen.

We had an abundance of rain through winter and spring

but now the deep holes are dry and the ponds are lower.

I know the leaves fall when the light lessens but many have fallen from the dry.  The trees are smarter than me and know when they can no longer feed their leaves.

As I walk and explore dry waterfalls I've never seen, I worry since water is such an important thing.

May the rains come.

Dentists and Dogs

We'll not speak of the dentist except to say the staff almost makes it a joy to have a drill in your mouth.

Some trees are showing color.  After our first frost little Lizzy will blend right in.  Hope that's a long way down the road.

Lil checking the spring pond filled with cat tails.

Lil is THE water dog

Stalking water skaters

Still looking

 The water cress is showing new growth along with mushrooms popping up.  Rain was good.

But signs of fall

are

beginning to show.

Rubber Booting...

is what I do when it's been raining a while.  Gotta check out everything. Dinner's in the oven so I don my camouflage rubber boots and a jacket because it's turning cold. I listened to the water roar through the valley at its peak last night but I couldn't go see.

Daylight comes we have things to do.  Want to help?  Come along with me and we'll have some fun.

We must check the water level.  We must check for new sand bars and see if the old ones still remain.

We have to watch for places holding water

and places that have washed out.  All these have to be corrected to conserve the land.

We check water gaps to make sure nothing is stopping the flow. If the water has damaged it replace/repair it so the cattle will not get out. 

We take out the limbs and the football (placing soggy football under our arm) that was blocking the flow and discover we have a hole in our boots.

A cold hole. Boots now full of water we slosh back to the house thinking it may be time for new rubber boots.

We find an arrowhead. And that is how a day goes after a big rain...now I'm looking for new rubber boots.

So many choices!!!