Around the farm

As you know, I am knew to posting photos on my blog and am trying to get comfortable doing so. For practice, I took my camera around the yard last week and took a few shots. I don't know if it's my computer or operator error (probably the latter), but it took me an hour just to get these few from camera to blog! Sheesh! And then when I viewed them on screen they don't even look very good - the color seems off - my husband said it was probably the early morning light, but again it was most likely the screw loose behind the lens!





This is one of my favorite summer spots for tea or cocktails. It's time to put away the tablecloth and take down the "Garden Cafe - Open Daily" sign, I suppose. I'll have to make the shift to toddies!

My daily walking path in the woods. It's interesting to me how some long some of the little trees tucked under the larger ones stay green so late.

My vehicle of choice when I'm feeling lazy to walk to the mailbox, or when I need to find my husband when he's out of hollering range.

The creek that winds through our woods, down through town, and eventually empties into Lake Michigan. The source of many-a-soaker.

Sadly, our nights of campfires and ghost stories are coming to a close. We tried having a fire the other night, but it was just too windy to enjoy it.



The north side of the barn. You can see the "trellises" I made out of the ends of my children's crib (I wrote about this in one of my first posts) propped up against it. I put them out there this summer, and they are weathering nicely.


"Little Red", our current project. It is a little L-shaped cottage that we trailered in from a farmer down the road who was going to burn it. We nestled it in the woods by the creek and think it will be a fun place to camp or hang out it with the kids - if we can ever get it finished!