Archive for the ‘Images Captured’ Category
Soil Sample
There are some places on our property where we have some really nice black dirt for top soil, but this isn’t one of them. This spot, on top of the ridge of our front field, is beneath a gate in the fence that was just completed. To connect the electric fence across the opening where there is a gate, they dig a trench and bury a wire. I was looking down at the filled-in trench and captured this shot to show the clay of our soil.
Fruit Trail
Here is a shot of the trail that passes beneath our apple tree. I don’t know what kind of apple tree it is, but it is very tall, surrounded by other trees, and has been dropping its fruit for weeks. I have yet to find an apple that doesn’t have a bad spot or worm in it. The fruit that is left on the tree is now pretty large, but it is up so high, we can’t reach to pick any.
Rafters Reign
This is an image that I am going to let speak for itself. Maybe I need a category called “Wordless Images” to offset my other efforts of combining my poetry with pictures I have taken…
Big Bone
Over the weekend, Cyndie reported that Delilah had dragged a carcass out of the woods. I was in the shower when she came in the house, looking for a camera. I asked what it was, but Cyndie said she couldn’t tell.
“It’s something big!” she announced.
It’s funny how our minds quickly conjure up images of what it might be. I stood there, washing my hair, imagining a variety of gory scenes of dead critters with dangling legs being dragged by our dog. A possum? A porcupine? How big was Cyndie’s “big?” How badly decomposed was it to be unrecognizable by Cyndie?
I offered her my camera, when she couldn’t locate her own, and continued to ponder whether it was something Delilah killed, or the remains of some other wild circle-of-life event that took place in our woods.
Delilah has a big fondness for bones. Cyndie has purchased several chunky bones, like pig knees from Fleet Farm, that Delilah carries around, often burying them, and sometimes crunching them to pieces. There was a time, a few weeks ago, when Delilah showed up with a long bone that looked like a leg bone, that she had found in our woods. That became a prized possession for several days, beating out all others for her attention.
When Cyndie returned with the camera, I got my chance to see what she was talking about. Yeah, it was big, but it isn’t what I’d call a carcass. My guess is that it came from the same source as that leg bone. I believe it is probably from the skeleton of the same deer that I discovered in our woods last fall.
That skeleton made quite an impression when we found it last year, and it’s still having an impact to this day. I’m actually a bit relieved that it wasn’t a new carcass that showed up. This one seems familiar, and we have made our peace with the loss of life that occurred.
New What
It’s time again for everyone’s favorite Relative Something image guessing game called, “What”! You have been missing it, haven’t you? Well, wait no more. It’s simple. All you need to do is guess what the item is in the image below. Do you trust your first impression, or ponder the possibilities? Can you hold off long enough to wait for the answer to come to you, or will you look right away? You are in charge, but it is strongly recommended you come up with some kind of guess before you click on the image to have the answer revealed. Enjoy!
Grand Day
It was a beautiful summer day yesterday for us to showcase our place for friends. Delilah got loads of attention, and was a charm the whole day. I walked our trails several times, guiding tours. I noshed and nibbled all afternoon, to my heart’s delight. Unfortunately, I didn’t pull the camera out more than once or twice, because I was so occupied with having a wonderful time that I kept forgetting to capture all the fun in pictures. Here’s a collage that samples some of the atmosphere of our grand day.
Relative Something 