It's the end of Summer, and I'm Way Behind...

For the past months, we have been altering our Internet services at the farm, and the place in New Waverly has not Internet, so my only option is to update the blogs when I'm on the road at a hotel or at the office, and neither are convenient times to update a blog. But, I found some open time this afternoon while waiting for a meeting to happen in Seattle. I'll apologize for the load of images all at once, but it is the summer photos at Go Away Farm.

We were blessed to get some regular rains, albeit small, but rain all the same. The gardens did well, but we had a lot of dying trees from last year's drought. It took a toll on some of our very old large Water Oaks, which is so sad it'll almost make you cry. Nature has an interesting way of replenishing itself, doesn't it?!

Hope you enjoy these...

The lake is down, but the bridge and the vine growing on it are still beautiful! 

Our "banded Galloway / Angus / Herford" mixed bull calf

Our miracle Oak that was torn all to pieces by a lightening strike and lived to tell the tale. You'll need to ask Mikki about this tree. It is an amazing story. 

The lightening hit it and busted the bark off of the tree from the top to the bottom on every major limb. 

The lightning strike was so strong that it not only busted this tree on all sides, but also killed the elm next to it. 

The magnolia bloom gone to seed... with a couple visitors

A magnolia bloom going to seed...

The watering can

10 lbs of peaches. Man, were they ever good... 

A 1lb tomato! 

A bug that looks like a leaf that looks like a bug

A beauty! 

He obviously is nosey...

Mikki planted some peppers and they have been amazingly bountiful this year. She has picked hundreds I guess... it's a lot, I know that. 

Carrots were beauties! 

Lots and lots of sweet tomatoes this year!  Lots of tomato sauses and canning going on. 

This is what our peaches look like when they are being eaten... with Bluebell Homemade Vanilla!

A great invention!