Sunday

We took a drive Sunday afternoon down several county roads....In the Dry Creek/Cliffty Creek areas..I like these rock lined places on the hills.....Would be neat to be able to see what this looks like during a hard rain!

Clifty Creek from the low-water slab...

Our turkeys were back Sunday morning! I watched them for quite a while...so neat to have them so close! 

Tuesday's Pictures

These were all taken on Tuesday....In the morning I was sitting at the dining room table working on some things for a while....eventually Richard walks through and says look at those turkeys! haha No telling how long they had been  out there.....good sized flock.a dozen or so..Sure was neat to see them!

When they got a bit spooked, some of them flew up into the trees...

I went over to the garden after that to pick some zinnias.....I saw some bees soaking up the sunshine and last bits of Summer....

Pretty zinnias...

Reflection of the sunset in the back window of the pick-up.

It was another pretty day today...not quite as warm as yesterday, but just wonderful!

Closing It Down

We went down to the cabin Monday for Stage Two of our winterizing process.....oh my! look at all those leaves! Perhaps we should have brought a rake. or a leaf blower..or both! Ha! We'll see what Mother Nature does with them the next week or so...It was a warm and breezy day....and even though down by the river  a lot of leaves had already fallen, it was still pretty!

Lots of leaves on the steps too...you can see by the ripples in the water how windy it was!

Leaves gathered by the dock.

We made good process on closing the cabin for the season. We should be able to finish in another trip ...or two!

Wildflower Wednesday

I took this picture last week over by the garden....don't know the name of this one either!

Tuesday Things

This picture is from a couple weeks ago....totally black caterpillar! 

Friday I was moving stacks of old corn stocks from the garden and uncovered this guy...who probably thought he was in a good spot to hide...

Taken Sunday morning....big "town" rabbit that has been living at least part of the time in the tangled bunch of bushes we have between our house and the highway..

Fall Colors

Sugar Maple in the Mae Yard...This tree was damaged in a storm several years ago, but still puts on a pretty show every fall!

Smaller Pin Oak on the West side of our house......

Another hard maple...

A big stand of this has volunteered between us and the neighbor...I looked it up once and it was something like Rough___Dogwood I think. I can't remember the middle word. Anyway, the birds love these berries....and it makes  a good screen...One drawback is there are  a couple weeks where it just stinks something awful! 

Leaning Sugar Maple....East side of our house.

Over by the red garage..

Sugar Maple that has volunteered in the fence corner of the Mae yard...

More Maple..

I took all of these pictures today.....I think the peak of the color was actually Friday here...although there is still lots of nice color around, especially some of the maples....

Freaky Friday

A few days ago, I was cutting the tomatoes ties off the posts, to make it easier when Richard went to pull them up....about the fifth post I did I came across this spider......we are thinking it's a black widow...Here it is after we disturbed it....

Before that it was tending to it's egg nest thing...It was actually kind of tucked behind a tomato vine, right next to the post...

Probably a good thing it's a long time until I'll be picking fresh tomatoes again! Hopefully I will  forget about this by then! Ha!

Tuesday we started the process of closing the cabin.. One of the things I did was to take all the bedding off the beds.  I had picked up a pillow (that was under a comforter) and felt something inside the case...felt kind of like  a AA battery or something...sooo I turned the pillow upside down and out came what I thought at the time was a huge live lizard! About scared me to death! haha  It quickly scampered under the bed, so Richard  moved the bed and caught it and said it was actually a skink....We let him go and he took off too fast to get a picture...again, probably a good thing it's going to be a long time until someone sleeps in that bed!