I think I decided to post today because... okay, I'm not sure why. Maybe because I thought I was going to forget or something. But anyway, it's been ten days since the last time I posted, so I figured it was about time to get some more pictures up. I guess it's not a surprise anymore, but the snow melted again. This morning it sounded like we might get snow this evening, but the whole system of snow floated by just south of us. You'd hardly know this was Alberta with how little snow we have. Anyway, here's some pictures I've taken over the last week and a half. On December 4th, I opened an egg carton (all the eggs were from our own hens) and thought it looked neat with all the different-coloured eggs. On the 5th, I looked out the front window, happened to glance down at the stones lining the perimeter of my mom's flowerbed, and thought it looked kind of funny how the cats had walked carefully down the center of the perimeter. The snow melted again on the 6th. Then it snowed on the 7th. Left to right: Snowy backyard; Christmas ornaments hanging in front of the window, framing the snow-covered mountain ash tree; chickadee having lunch; snow piling up on the tree branches. Asparagus fields on the 8th: Sunset on the 13th: Snow-less backyard today: And I just finished making sugar cookies. My sister pulled a bag of Christmas sprinkles out of the pantry, so I used those in some of the cookies. Even though it doesn't look like it, we are only eleven days away from Christmas! Have a good weekend!
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So the calendar and I are currently not agreeing right now. According to the calendar it's November 30th... according to what I'm still seeing outside, it's either September 30 or March 30. This is Alberta Canada, almost December, and we still have zero snow... which is weird. But hopefully it will snow soon! Having said that, I promise that all these pictures were taken this month, even though it sure doesn't look like it. :D Enjoy! Four from the 24th. First is his royal highness, Rex. I don't know why he keeps sitting up on that railing except to just be able to see in the window... but I personally think that looks kind of uncomfortable, and that metal must be cold on his paws. But that's been one of his favourite places to sit these last few days. The frost looked neat on the frozen tilled ridges in the garden. We did some Christmas decorating that evening, and when the setting sun shone through the window, it hit the snowflakes on some of the ornaments we'd hung, and was making them glitter. It was very pretty. Then I went to the patio window and took a picture of the sunset. Three pictures of the sky on the 25th: We did the rest of the decorating on the 27th: And I took a picture of a neat-looking sheet of clouds; then, after it was dark outside, one of the lights up on the house, which have been there for a few weeks now. Sunset on the 28th: Clouds on the 29th that looked like they should have dropped some snow and didn't: Then this morning, I was walking past the front window to turn on the light so I could play the piano, and I saw this: And a short while after that, I went outside to open the chicken coop. On my way back to the house, I saw the moon still hanging high in the western sky, so I came in and took a picture of it. Tomorrow is Photo of the Month day, so I'll have to find one of the highlights of November!
Not all of these are from our farm, but we were at the Agri-Trade in Red Deer this past week, displaying some of our equipment, so some of these pictures will be from that time as well. First, from November 4th. The sunrise, and later a couple of cats hoping that if they look sad enough, we'll let them in the house. (Didn't happen :D) There was quite a bit of fog through the night on the 6th and 7th, so there was a bunch of really neat-looking frost on the asparagus ferns on the morning of the 7th. Very pretty! That same day, Dragon was sunning himself (or hunting) on the fence... why he chose that rail instead of the top rail, I have no idea, but it looked kind of funny. The crescent moon and what I think is Venus but may have been a star, on the morning of the 9th. And then the rest are from today. Two of the sunrise: Saw this rather funny sight while taking care of the chickens this morning. The left egg is about average chicken egg size, maybe slightly smaller. The other egg is also a chicken egg... but it's so huge it's hilarious. (One of our hens has been laying quite a few double-yolkers.) Then a moose walked through our field just as we were leaving for Red Deer. The sun and some congregating geese somewhere between here and Red Deer. And a couple pictures of our set-up at the farm show :)
All but one of these photos is from the 30th of October, and they're all sunrise/sunset pictures, so I'll just caption each of them with the time the picture was taken :) And the sunset from the 31st:
Here's the rest of the pictures I mentioned back when it first started snowing, and some more that I hadn't taken yet at that point. Five from the 25th: . . . and a bit of a play-by-play of what the 26th looked like, shown through eight photos: And yesterday's sunrise and sunset :)
We were away from the farm most of last week so I got almost zero pictures around here. But I think the pictures I took this past week made up for it. I narrowed it down to 30 . . . which is still quite a lot, so here's another literal photo dump. From October 7th. The mountain ash tree had a beautiful variety of colours again this year. I love it when that happens. From that same day: A swamp that actually looks nicer than it sounds, the quad trail leading through the trees, and some poplar trees. And the Lord brought in warmer weather again, long enough for us to finish harvesting the wheat - so Dad was in the combine that day, getting the rest of the crop off. Asparagus plots on the 8th: Sunset on the 14th: On the 15th the sun was shining through the mountain ash tree and making the leaves on the ground a really pretty colour. I thought it looked nice with the patches of golden-red between the shadows of the branches. Then we had an amazing sunrise on the 16th: And another gorgeous view of God's handiwork on the morning of the 18th. Also on the 18th, I was down on the ground trying to get a picture of the sun shining on some poppy petals, and the clover looked so pretty in the evening light that I had to take a picture of that, too. Then the sunrise yesterday morning made a pretty picture out of the spruce trees and the fence. It looks like snow at first glance, but I promise it's not. The clouds looked super neat for the majority of the day yesterday. My chicks . . . who aren't actually chicks anymore. I think I was half right when I guessed their genders back in May when they first hatched. Now I'm pretty sure both of them are roosters... although neither have crowed yet, they both act like roosters, have huge feet, and keep making rooster noises. And what's kind of funny is that they're still sticking together. Even though they're grown chickens now, they're still pretty much always following each other around. Usually where you see one of them, you'll see the other only a couple feet away. But anyway, they sure are pretty! I love the difference in colour in their feathers. Mama Lilly (with a younger Barred Rock hen): And all the chickens we currently have. Sunset from last night: And sunrise from this morning! I hope you enjoyed these shots, and have a great weekend!
A variety of trees and plants (October 3rd) Sunrises (October 4th) Unique patterns in the clouds from day to day (October 4th) Sunsets (October 5th) And so much more! I'm thankful for all the beautiful creation that God displays for us. I'm thankful for my family, my friends, a good harvest . . . the list could go on and on. We have so much to be thankful for! "Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ . . ." Ephesians 5:20
The trees and bushes are still hanging onto their colours - or they were last week, anyway. I've got several more pictures from along the trails through the trees . . . plus some harvest pictures, since Dad combined most of our wheat field last week too, before it got too wet to harvest anymore. From September 23rd: Two pictures of bushes/trees, one of the bales in our neighbour's field with our own wheat field in the foreground, and one of a pretty leaf I found... it looked a lot like a maple leaf, but it was some kind of little bush. The mountain ash tree on the 25th: From the 26th: The plum tree, starting to change colour. A stack of delicious-looking corn... one of my favourite vegetables! And a pretty big assortment of pictures throughout the trails in the trees, and some mushrooms. I know absolutely nothing when it comes to mushrooms, so I never touch any (not on purpose, anyway), I only look at them or take pictures. (I don't even like the edible ones anyway; that probably has something to do with why I've never found out which mushrooms are edible and which aren't.) Also, at the end, is a little arrangement of leaves I found. All about in the same area, they were such vivid colours. If I knew of any plants around our property that had blue leaves, I could have finished the rainbow... but I thought it was pretty with just the first four colours, too.
This is what we woke up to on the morning of the 30th. The first really heavy frost. (And the moon setting.) Yesterday afternoon, the poplar trees looked golden against the sky. And finally, just this evening, a picture of the sunset :)
This isn't Friday, but Monday's still as good a day as any to post the latest photos! First picture, from September 2nd, the sunset with a jet flying through. Another sunset from the 7th: And then a bunch from the 8th. I'd been outside feeding and watering the animals, and I saw two huge gaggles of geese fly over very high, in formation, heading south. The sun was setting and there were a bunch of little golden-gray puffs of cloud all over the sky above me, and the formations of geese looked really neat against those clouds. So I went back to the house to get my camera in hopes that another gaggle would fly over. None did, but I ended up getting a lot of other photos anyway.
Four are from the progressing sunset, one is of a section of the wheat field, and one is of a few geese (or ducks, I don't remember which) that flew over heading northeast. Five different subjects out of twelve different pictures. We had the first corn of the year for supper on August 25th. As always, it was delicious! Corn is one of my favourite vegetables. There were so many flowers blooming on the 26th that I went to check them out. Tikka came with me and just couldn't handle the heat, as you can see from the way she just plopped down under the sunflowers. (And that's a real "sun"flower.) Then I picked some cherry tomatoes (another of my top favourite foods), and right after that, Tikka decided it wasn't so hot that she couldn't try to snatch a flower out of my sister's hand. The moon looked super neat on the 27th and I stood outside taking pictures until I had a good one. And I actually got a pink poppy! I thought only the red ones were going to bloom but then on the 29th my mom came and told me that there was a pink poppy out there. That evening I took another picture of the moon with some tree branches in the foreground. And finally, on the 30th, we were being watched by a couple of "guards" on the barn roof.
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AuthorHi, I'm Leah! I'm a college student, and I'm the Shop Supervisor here at Cornerstone Acres. I love to read, write, play hockey, and spend time out in God's creation. I'm looking forward to sharing our farm experiences with you through this blog! "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him." ~Colossians 1:16, KJV
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