Happy New Year

It's time for a new year. So I suggest you find a road-path- or trail you have never traveled before and explore it. Have some fun finding new places to see and visit.

Christmas Lights

We put up a few Christmas lights at the house we bought last February. This is our first Christmas in this house.

Harvesting the Beans

We have a lot of soy bean fields around our property and the other day they started harvesting the very day beans. I snapped a few shots and hope they didn't mind. The beans were planted in the spring and we have been watching them grow, bloom (very tiny blooms you can barely notice), the bean pods slowly went from flat to big with the beans. Finally over the last few months they have been drying on the now dead plants. Each bean is about the size of a pea. I can't call them vines like so many beans grow on as it seems to be more of a plant about two feet tall. The first photo is the big machine that would cut down the plants and inside the machine it pulled the soy beans out and put them in to a holding tank on the back of the machine and at the same time threw the plant and pods out the backend as you can see in the second photo.  Interesting.

 This is the truck that held all the soy beans after they had been harvested.

This is the machine from the first photos with an arm extended to send the soy beans from the holding tank to the truck. You can see the beans going into the truck.

This was out across the field from us. Highway 71 is behind the field. You can see part of a blue simi tracker and trailer tuck through the trees. The highway is that close to our house. I was standing on the steps to our back door to take this but had the camera zoomed in all the way.

This little hawk, or maybe a falcon, was sitting on our flagpole watching the harvest. We have seen several hawks lately. I think they know that the harvest will disturb all the rodents that live in the field and they will be able to see them and catch them easier now that the beans are gone. And so many people think that birds and other wildlife can't think and learn. This hawk knew what was happening.

First Snow

Fall and Fog

 Some photos of the large shed on the property behind ours. The next photo is where I walked to the shed then turned around and took a picture of the trail back and you can see a corner of our house. On the trail to the shed is several large trees. The deer use this trail, too. There were hunters out there the day before I took these photos. I am sure they would have been upset to see deer tracks on top of their pickup truck tracks as I did. You can see the deer tracks in the one photo.

We had a very foggy day a few days ago. It didn't lift until noon. I am not fond of the fog but it does make for good photos.

Autumn Day

Autumn day in Kentucky started out very foggy here at my house. Then the sun came out and it was a beautiful day, so we went for a drive. We drove up to General Butler State Park. Saw lots of pretty leaves. Went for a short walk with out dog, Ziva.

This this beautiful doe posed for me to take photos of her.

 Then we drove down to the Ohio River and saw this German Shepherd dog going for a boat ride. I don't think Ziva would do that.

The clouds over the river were big white fluffy ones. Not the normal ones you see around here.

There were a few wild sunflowers blooming along the edge of the river.