Monday, May 30, 2016

Sky over Drayton


Some weather system came over 


lots of dust flying, 
this was just a mini dust cloud


The pictures I took from the car are all shaky 


but we stopped for gas and then the camera could focus


cool clouds over Drayton

Saturday, May 28, 2016

Growing Temperatures


It always amazes me


how plants can grow


from just a tiny seed


It's all emerging now


such a nice time of the year


Thursday, May 26, 2016

Pasture Pictures


This picture I took a while ago to show Olga the layout of the pasture
this is the dry cow pasture up until the door to the milk cows



On the right is the "training" pasture for dry and close up heifers
closer to the creek the extended pasture for the same group


The milk cow pasture is in front of the house


hard to see with the trees in leaf


the cows love it, and so do we

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Bulb Flowers


Because it started out cool


the flowers lasted a long time already


Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Birds around the house


The Oreaole tries out the new hummingbird feeder


I see a drop on his beak so it must be working


nice colourful bird


Robin's nest in the apple tree

Monday, May 23, 2016

Marc on the Spinner


Marc came by our place on the Spinner

It's a big machine to drive on the road



The tires are a bit taller then Rien

On his way to Markdale
trying to stay on secondary roads

Sunday, May 22, 2016

The Beans are in



It's such big equipment


and there are a few Hydro poles in the field


Hi Matt


All done!



Saturday, May 21, 2016

Pasture


The grass on the hill has a lot of yellow flowers

this evening the cows are outside for the first time during the night


Cows don't like hot weather

so even though they could have gone out in the day they all came in


they got what they wanted, out during the night

Friday, May 20, 2016

First Campfire of the Season


singing praise songs around the fire


a beautiful sunset


Nice surroundings


some like their hotdogs black


love camp fires



Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Leader's Outing Hendrie Valley





Magnolia at the parking lot


The gate is just beside the Royal Botanical Garden

walking past the Trilliums


Roots


Cardinal


lots of Chickadees 


and quite tame


this was where we saw so many birds on the board walk



Family of Geese


Group Picture



picnic lunch