Picture of Our Day

We woke up this morning to a nice rain and ended the day with a rainbow and a small shower. Not a bad way to begin and end the day. The rainbow was a full one and incredibly bright. (I guess if I had Photoshop then my picture might do it justice.) If you look closely, you can see that on one end it was a double one. T.S. said it stretched, "All the way to Grandma's."

Picture of our Day--Today

I didn't mean to have multiple posts today, but sometimes more things happen in one day than others. We woke up to heavy fog and dew today. It is incredibly wet--you'll see more of that in my post later on stalking chickens. Anyway, when I was stalking the chickens I took the above picture of "wildflowers." I want to point out that I used no photoshop--it's straight out of my point and shoot camera.

Picture(s) of our Day--Yesterday

Run, Bob run! there is a giant trying to get in!



These need captions (I tried on the first one, but it is too early for my brain to work). Feel free to leave one in the comments.

Greener Everyday

Between taking chickens to school for Sadie to show first grade and working on earning points for Mother of the Year, I haven't had time to go back out into the pasture to take pictures. I did take these from our house yesterday. The plan is to head to the pasture for tomorrow evening's adventure. But, we are getting greener.

Easter Morning Fog

We woke up Easter morning to fog. We were blessed this weekend with over an inch of rain. We are so thankful for the moisture.

More Snow Pictures

We had a little more snow overnight. By noon, there were already bare spots and now all that is left are the drifts. We had some really cool drifts in our pens and in the corner of our fence line. The kids had fun in the snow. You can see more pictures of them here. You can also click on these images to make them larger.

It is kind of strange to think we were experiencing a blizzard yesterday and the temps are in the high 40s today. The wind is still blowing, so I am sure there is a wind chill. We learned we are going to have to do some upgrading to the chicken house so we'll be ready if we ever have a "real" winter.

I'm sure this may be overkill on the pictures, but I really thought the drifts and their shapes were cool. I also liked Robby and T.S.'s shadows. Poor T.S. had serious mitten problems this morning.

The Day in Pictures

A blizzard has been blowing through our area today. We've been fortunate to be on the edge of most of it. The following pictures chronicle the day from sun-up to about 5:00pm. I tried to take the windmill from our front porch throughout the day for a reference.

It was interesting around 5:00, we had drifts and bare spots. The ground temperature is warm enough that it was slushy. The wind blew it off of unprotected places. We had bands of snow blow through throughout the day and are expecting a little more this evening. North of us it is much worse.

UPDATE: The story and caption contest are open until Sunday--be brave and enter!

How did that end up there?

During spring break we stopped at the picnic area at Washington on the Brazos State Park. While watching my kids and enjoying the spring day, I happened to look up and see this:

I asked the kids how it got there, Sadie came up with a story about elves. When T.S. heard "elf," he announced that an elephant put it there.

So, what's the story? How did that shoe get in the tree?

Again, possible blog giveaway--if more than four people comment, I'll pick a winner and send him/her a fabulous prize.

(see yesterday's post: Picture of the Day)

Picture of the Day

According to T.S., this is a bull because it has two...

horns. Actually it is one of the mama cows currently residing in our pasture.

What would you put as a caption for this photo??

No one ever comments, but if someone comes up with a great title/caption, I might just have my first blog give away. Prize to be determined.

A Snapshot of our Day

You know it's windy when shirts blow off of the line and over the fence into the yard.