Monday, February 22, 2010

Images of the farm...

Here are a few images shot this winter at the farm. I'm always amazed at the variety of images available... Such beauty in nature. Take a look. Enjoy. It's free!

Growth on an oak limb


A beautiful sunset in a flat place... on the way to the farm


Frozen vegetables


Blooming in the winter


Navel oranges


Louie and the frozen vegetables


A railroad spike in a burning log... at one time, this was a deer hunter's climbing spike in a large oak. 

Go Think! has our Christmas Party at Go Away

We had a wonderful day at the farm with the Go Think! families. The food, the children's gifts and the hay ride were all a lot of fun. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. 



Liz and Anna getting a bit chummy. But it was cold. 


The hay ride! See Anna saying hay?! 



Looks like Bryan (in the black shirt) is trying to sell Charles (orange shirt about to laugh) and Greg and Conner (white shirt and t-shirt) some watches... like on the beach kind of watches. Oh never mind. Oh wait a minute. Maybe he was leading them in a Christmas carol. That's it! 



Craig & Trudy



Mikki & Galen (they look older here than they really are)



Kevin Welborn's kids and Annie, Katie's youngest.



The kids with the donkey whisperer in action. They all stood perfectly still. The kids, not the donkeys.



And here, Mr. Ed tries to reason with the kids, but they'd have none of it. 

Navel Oranges at Go Away Farm

We had a particularly wonderful crop of large, juicy navel oranges this year! 117 on the tree in it's third year. The deep three-day freeze stung the tree badly. I'm very hopeful we can salvage parts of it to bear again. What a wonderful fruit and a fragrant smell when they bloom. 

The 3 Roosters...

The three tenor's don't have anything on us! We have three crowing roosters. One is mixed up a bit and crows most of the night. Not sure when he gets rest.


Somehow, we've ended up with three roosters. No one, even chicken lovers like us, need three roosters, ever! That's a lot of crowing and fighting to put up with. 


Here are a couple more of the chickens better at throwing long shadows than eggs right now.