Monday, October 30, 2023

Farm Field Trip Fall 2023

 So, I don't get out of the house much anymore, but the other day the fall weather was so perfect that I couldn't resist. I love to walk around the farm, but I have trouble walking anymore and nature has reclaimed the farm so much that it's hard to get around it anyway. I do love the wildness of the fields too though.

Hubby revved up our old side by side, Old Yeller, and we took a short ride down to the big pond and around one field before coming back to the house. We stopped for a few minutes behind the old house and walked around a little on the flat rock road bed leading to the old well before continuing on to the pond.

We literally drove through brambles, briars, bushes and sage grass as tall as the side by side, tree limbs, and over rocks, ditches, and around sink holes, causing us to bounce, jerk, dodge, duck, and push though the jungle. We couldn't go around the pond, but at least we could see it. Beavers have cut and/or killed all the trees that used to line the edges, thus it's full of dead trees. They also dammed up the drain ditch. Not as pretty as it used to be, but it still has a beauty to it if you really look.

This was sort of our short road trip vacation for the year, I guess, but it does my soul so much good just to visit the old home place every time I do. I always take my camera, of course! Just wish the colors in the photos were as vibrant as they were in reality...

Hubby and me, in our seventies, enjoying a Sunday afternoon outing together! This was actually at the end of the ride. We are covered in dust, dead leaves, pollen, cattail and sage grass fuzz, twigs, bugs, and Lord knows what else! Came back itching and sneezing!


The road to the old homeplace where the gate attached to the big oak was when I was growing up...

Papa's old homeplace, Fall 2023


The old homeplace, house and Papa's tractor/car shed with the garden spot in the background between them...


Papa's old tractor/car shed from the back and side...


Old house side with chimney, trees holding up the back side dining room/bedroom and kitchen...


Back of old house,  porch, which ran the length of the closest part, fell off years ago...


Old house kitchen back...


Road to the old well...


Fall prickly pear in sage grass...


Nature is slowly covering the rock road behind the house...


Old walnut hull on the road bed...


Prickly pear bunch in the middle of the weeds...


Dead seed pods and weeds down toward the fields...


Prickly pear bouquet for my shadow self...


Iron bean tree shedding its pods...


From the rock road bed toward the back of the old barn...


Hubby walking toward the old well and Old Yeller from a distance...


Same picture close up...


Lichen on a dead fallen tree...


Part of rock road bed...


Fall sky...


Dried up branch in the field behind old house that only runs during wet weather...


Thistle pods and fuzz pollen...


Fall cattails, opened up, in the field...




Love the white trunk of this tree on the pond bank...


Beaver destruction at the pond...


Papa's pond Fall 2023...




Sweetgum tree leaves by the pond...



Hubby checking to see if there's still any fish or turtles in the pond...


Sage grass fuzz/pollen...



More sage grass and cattails...


I thought we were going to turn over a couple of times, but here we are coming out safe and sound, with only a few scratches and some sore joints to remind us we ain't youngsters anymore! Plus, we had to take showers to get all the debris off us, but that's a small price to pay for some fun memories together. So thankful we are both still here, together, and able to enjoy another road trip through nature. It was good for our souls, as nature often is!

Thanks for visiting! :)


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