BACK AGAIN!!!!!

    Hello all -- so glad to be back!!!  There was some big Google Glitch, so I haven't been able to post anything for a few weeks.  I missed "visiting" with all of you, even though I am now posting biweekly -- after more than 12 years of posting mostly weekly.  The world continues to need our attention and our care. I hope everyone is able to seek truth and share kindness.

    Today is February 3, and there is a chance that the impending ice storm will cause electricity breakdowns around here in northeastern Kentucky.  Therefore I am going to put up some January photos and get this published sooner rather than later!

 

outside my window -- Christmas tree doing double duty now as bird sheltering

 

going to get the mail, late

The cardinal is the Kentucky state bird.

brief moment caught just before dark

THREE PHOTOS BY Rebecca W.:

signs of a beaver covering over his or her tracks with that handy wide tail

testing the log but wisely not going the whole way across -- oh, to be ten again!!

Sideway Road curving uphill...

the sun trying to get through

    There are more, but the images by me are all within walking distance from my house, at all times of the day. And this weekend may be full of winter as work, in many locations, and not just winter as fun and beautiful. 
    I will plan to do the next post on FEBRUARY 13, if Google can keep its act together. Be safe, vaccinate for the sake of the health of our world, thanks for not giving up on me and my blog! 

an ever changing neighborhood

          I think our long cool spring has transitioned directly to the full warmth of summer. Fields are ready for the first mowing, and there are a variety of farm procedures in action.  Last night I even followed the setting sun and made some photos with a camera with few frames left --- definitely not my best professional behavior.  Even so, I enjoyed being out and about making photos. However, these first three photos are ones I meant to include two weeks ago.

revisiting a mayapple patch along the road -- I then used the patch I found hiding in the woods to take the up close mayapple photos now that they were in bloom.  I didn't want anyone driving by to wonder what I was looking for -- or hiding -- under the foliage.....

        

 

one blossom per plant

        
         Yesterday I got adventurous and took a back road off of a back road, and it was a bit more precarious than I had expected, with lots of storm damage to navigate as well.  Thank goodness at least there was not any traffic, just several other cows along the bottom of the hill.

 steep flower bank on the other side of the road

last night's evening sky, along Route 504

         

 

 

And now let's see if I can load up a video of the same views, and watch how my phone did what it could for its last filming before it needed to be recharged.  As usual, I'm so used to working by myself that I forgot to add any voice over or words of wisdom.    Ah, life's sweet challenges....

I return here around 9 pm tonight, and, if the video hasn't reloaded yet, I will try a redo. In the meantime, I went for a short walk in the cool of the day, as the Jean Ritchie song says that sings those words....  with thanks to George Ella for recognizing what I was trying to convey with the quote.

SPRING!

      All of a sudden, DAFFODILS!  Finally, this year, I actually went to my three favorite nearby sites to see how each one was faring -- during a single evening.  I felt I was visiting reliable old friends, and now I can introduce them to each other. 

     First were the scattered ones in an overgrown field along my dead end road.  I've always  assumed there once had been a house close by:  

 

 

    Next, the daffodils on the hillside, by the next bigger road we take to town.  I stopped my car in the road, put on my blinkers, since more than one car came through. Despite my camera in plain view, I know they all thought I was having car trouble, and they wanted to offer help. I figured I was safer with the car in view than if it were just my body, with no protection:

The title of this next view is Legacy. The house is long gone, but every year..... the daffodils.

 

        That same afternoon I went to visit with a neighbor and friend who's quite ill. I often have made photos back in where she lives, especially her flowers. I took just a few photos this time.  Her tobacco barn is old, and the front has been removed, but it's so interesting (to me) to see the innards that have been holding the place together for a long time.  As for the driveway, I say thanks, every time, that it's not mine.

 

     To end this post, a sunset photo, which I would not have seen were I not out and about visiting my favorite daffodils:

 

            

 Everyone, stay safe. It's not over yet. We each need to continue to do our part.