it's harvest time...

Things are busy here on the farm these days.

All the grass fields are down......and waiting to be put into the barns. 

On every farm in the neighbourhood...

...the grass lies neatly in rows.  

Do you have any idea how good that smells?  

We won't be talking about how things smell around here next week...

but for now, we can breathe deeply!

 The corn harvest is underway as well...

and at this time of the year we are always most grateful to friends who know how to drive truck...

and are willing to lend a hand...often until late at night.  

Sometimes they get 'meals on wheels' out in the field...

other times we have a picnic on the patio. 

We hope that if we feed them...they might come again!

While the guys are harvesting...I'm planting.  

I pulled out all my summer annuals yesterday...

I picked up five flats of winter pansies to replace them. 

They will bloom for awhile now...but mostly I enjoy them in early spring.

I took this photo on my way to the garden shop yesterday afternoon.  

Here's what I noticed...

the snow that covered the peak of Mt. Cheam last week is gone. 

Is there any chance we might still make it to the peak this year...once the harvest is over? 

It's a thought...and a good one!

 

And, speaking of Mt. Cheam...

I just had to add this photo of the 'harvest moon over Mt. Cheam'.  

The photo came as an e-mail forward...

and was apparently taken by a valley resident named Scott Secord.  

I wish I could take credit for it...it's an awesome photo! 

Nature's music is never over;

her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

~Mary Webb

Have an awesome weekend...