Mary
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The view from my placeMaybe you would enjoy seeing what I see from my windows, porch, or somewhere on or near our place. We live half a mile from the next farms, and the counrty is rolling fields and pastures.
This first picture was taken from the porch on a stormy day just as the storm was about to hit. We were still in the sun but could see streaks of lightning in those black clouds. I thought the contrast was interesting. The flower bed is what I call the lasagna bed, it had been part of the pasture just a couple of years before. One fall I put down newspapers and cardboard, then piled on the sheep barn cleanings, waited until spring, dug holes and planted things. Most of it grew!
Anyhow, back to pictures.
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Mary
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An early winter sunrise, picture taken from just outside my kitchen window while I was in bathrobe and slippers trying to hold still enough to get the picture before the light changed. Brrrr.
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Mary
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Looking toward the northwest at smoke from a forest fire that was about 20 miles away. This picture was taken from our front porch which faces north and has the best breeze every evening!
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Mary
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This view of our place was taken from our west fenceline. The pond is ours, house is on the right, then the red building is my hubby's shop with attached woodshed. We have added a greenhouse in the space between buildings. My garden is down the hill to the left. The small building is a former chicken house that is now a shed for the horses to use if they choose. The first horse that used it was one we called Moose, so we have always called the building the Moose Lodge.
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Mary
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Ok, now you have seen the long shot, so here is a closer view where you can see more detail. The cattle belong to our neighbor, the horses are ours, or more accurately, mine, since my hubby doesn't claim to own them.
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Mary
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We have a pair of Canada Geese that raise a few babies on our pond every year.
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Mary
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The vegie garden feeds us quite well with fresh produce in season, then canned, frozen or dried food for winter.
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Mary
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Another view. Some years I grow beans on teepees made of old fallen limbs from the nearby trees.
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gardenwife
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*Sigh* what a view!
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gardenwife
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You just have a pair? You're fortunate! Around here, if you let one nest, you soon have fifty friends! LOL
| Mary wrote: | We have a pair of Canada Geese that raise a few babies on our pond every year.
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God's Warrior
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They are beautiful. After seeing Lisa's goose, "WAAH, I want a pet goose and a lake!!!!!"
Kimberly, I posted that video site of the movie clip you took of Lisa and her pet goose in the Pet and Animals Forum for everyone to see. It is priceless!
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Mary
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We have flocks of them stopping by for a few hours to half a day, but have never had more than one pair stay to raise their brood. I think lack of suitable nest sites in such an open area is the limiting factor.
In the spring and fall we also get flocks of trumpeter swans that stop on their migrations. I'd love to see a pair of them raise a brood here, but they nest much farther north. We are just thankful that God has this rest stop on their route.
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gardenwife
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It would be wonderful to live on the migratory path of so many interesting birds. We have places we can go birding around here, but it's not the same as watching them come to your own property!
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Mary
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On my way back from town one day last winter I took this picture. Our place is just to the left of the center. You can see that there is quite a distance between farms. I took the picture from a ridge on the west side of the Powder River, and then a few minutes later was traveling on the road you can see on the left side of the picture, looking like a dark wavy line from a distance of about 3 miles. The Wallowa mountains are in the background.
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Mary
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That picture looked better in my file than after it was transfered, but at least you can see the mountains.
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gardenwife
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That is such GORGEOUS scenery. I can't imagine having that view. Every place has its beauty, but the mountains are something else altogether. You're truly in God's country!
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Mary
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Today I took my camera along when we went to town, and took a few pictures on the way home. Here is the same view as the last picture above (hopefully I can identify the right one fromthe thumbnails in the folder).
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Mary
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The highway we take on the way to town goes over high hills and through a lot of rangeland. There are only a few houses along the way, but lots of cattle. We cross the Powder River which is mostly frozen. Actually nearly everything in 100 miles is mostly frozen.
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Mary
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This 3 point buck (in the eastern US you would call him a 6 point) walked through the pasture this morning. He stopped by the rail fence but didn't see me standing in the dining room taking his picture, then he went over the wire fence in the background.
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Mary
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Last night we got several inches of new snow and a lot of wind blew it around and made sculptures. I always enjoy seeing the artwork and thought you would too.
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Mary
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The most interesting place for wierd snowdrift sculptures is the space between the fence and my stock trailer. The wind came from the right at an angle toward where I stood to take the picture. The snow formed peaks like you would see on a pie with meringue on top, only these are sideways.
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Mary
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Breezy and Patch think maybe I will throw them some of that hay from the nearby carts, so they watched every move while I was taking pictures of other things.
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Mary
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The cats followed me around and finally became the subject of a few pictures. Neut, the wanderer, is the dark one, and the yellow cat is Sweetie Pie. They sleep in the haystack in the shed behind them, and have good thick winter coats. The stack of white squares you see inside the barn is bales of wool. Behind them is several tons of hay which you can't see. The left side has a lot of miscellaneous and the right side, behind the tractor, is lumber that hopefully will turn into something someday.
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