Hello, dears!

I hope you had a great Easter! I sure did. 🙂 We had a great time going to our old church again and seeing friends, as well as having family celebrations.

Once Easter is past, it seems like it really ought to be spring, heh heh. So today I’ve compiled some recent farm photography from various rambles – mostly springy ones, but a few from the last bits of winter too. I hope you enjoy “walking” around the farm with me!

I love how the soft light polishes the smooth gnarls of this twisted tree.❤

If you peer into the woods here, you’re bound to see drifts of pale leaves on small trees all over the place. We didn’t have beeches at home, so it’s fun to see leaves here even in winter!

There’s a little island of trees in the pasture behind the Cedar House, some of which are pines laden with cones. I think pine cones are just so satisfying and pretty to take pictures of and hold. 😛

I love finding bright spots of color among the gray!

Another common tree here that isn’t common at home is the sweet gum tree. The seed pods always have bad hair days, heh heh. XD

Plush cushions of velvety green moss make me happy. 🙂

Now we get to the wintry part, but it’s just a few pictures. 😉 Quite a while ago, the smaller pond was frozen enough to walk on, so of course we did so, hee hee. Don’t you love finding things frozen into the ice, like this oak leaf? Such a cold bed for the bright little thing to be sleeping in.

The ice crystals were GORGEOUS. I love the delicate, fleeting strength of ice.

Jellyfish bubbles floating, frozen…

Isn’t the crystallized texture so fine and pretty? At the bottom left I think it looks like an ice feather.

The very top of the ice melted, but it was still solid underneath, don’t worry. 😉 The reflections… ❤

Alright, enough of the cold. How’s this for a warmer picture? That little ridge is  a cow path. It always amazes me how straight and narrow the paths are, especially for such big, clumsy animals. XD

AHHH THE LIGHT. How could anyone not love golden hour? Hmm… maybe everyone does.

It looks like the foxtail head is floating. 😛

Okay, we’re switching topics again. XD Now we’re walking down to the big pond, which is NOT frozen, as you may notice.

The deep sapphire blue water contrasts so nicely with the pale cattails, don’t you think?

Here’s a different kind of blue. For some reason there are SO many vultures floating around, and even though I don’t particularly like the birds themselves, I like to watch them glide (or wobble, on windy days XD).

The fields are neon green on sunny days and it looks like SPRING, YAY. Except there are still no leaves on the trees…

This really reminds me of the default header on… the Hemingway theme, is it?

SO. PRETTY.

And here’s the big house… which is still being worked on. *sigh* The moving date is getting pushed further and further away, and right now it would be great if we could even move in before my birthday in the beginning of May.

Goodness, this post is all over the place… here’s a random photo of those strange cedar apples again! O.o

Next I have a few pictures of our smaller creek, which we have nicknamed “Little Runny.” 😛 I absolutely love it! The twisted roots of overhanging trees, tiny sandbar beaches, mossy stones, and clear bubbling rivulets weave together an enchanted atmosphere. ❤

I really want to make this into a fairy house. Isn’t it perfect?

Look, it’s a little rainbow lens flare!

Water fascinates me. Always moving, always changing, always twisting and rippling under the light. I think water and light together are especially beautiful and interesting to watch.

We found several pools along the creek that are pretty heavily populated with minnows and crayfish. (What do YOU call them? Crayfish? Crawfish? Crawdads?) We didn’t have a net, so we made do with a colander and metal strainer bought from Dollar General. XD

HA HA, it looks like he’s raising his claws in surrender. XD

My cousin kindly allowed me to take a picture of her, splendidly modelling the colander as a hat. 😛

And last but not least I have a handful of black and white edits that I quite like for different. 🙂 This one is pond ripples, but I think they look like tiny sand dunes too.

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I really like this one too! I always find pictures of hands, by themselves or holding something, appealing; I don’t quite know why.

I love how the round clusters of sycamore seeds hang from the branches like ornaments.

Apparently I think trees look really good in black and white. 🙂

And I saved one of my favorites for last. ❤ The vultures and cows together look so rural and free.

I hope you enjoyed this longish, scattered post, dears! Which picture was your favorite? Which was your LEAST favorite? Are you ready for spring?

Thanks for reading, and have a wonderful warm day!

***Allison***