October Morning on the Dairy

It's mornings like this that I just have to stop and take in the surrounding beauty and be grateful for where and how I live on this dairy.  This morning, as I was getting Bryce's lunch ready for school, I happened to glance out the kitchen window and spotted this beautiful sunrise.  It wasn't early, about 7 a.m.  but I knew if I didn't just drop what I was doing, this beautiful salmon colored sunrise would be gone.  It only took a few moments to walk out the slide door, onto the deck and snap a couple of photos, hoping they would do what I was witnessing, justice.....of course they didn't.  It was much more vibrant in person.

And just like that, it was gone.  More clouds moved in and there was no sign of the sun for the rest of the day.

Another thing I'm grateful for, living on the dairy is all the wildlife that makes this land their home and the fact that I am able to have visual contact with it on a daily basis.  On the way back from dropping Bryce off at school, one of our resident Cooper's Hawks was perched on a branch on the side of the road that leads up to our house.  I was glad I had brought  my camera with me on the ride.



















I was able to snap two quick shots before my feathered friend flew off.

Happy Friday!
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Cooper's Hawk~ A Frequent Ranch Visitor

I was finally able to capture a decent shot of a frequent ranch visitor.  A Cooper's Hawk.  As Paige and I were driving up the hill to our house in the middle of the day, this guy was perched on the T-post waiting for something to capture himself.  Or maybe, he too was fooled by the Flipping the Bird Decoys that are still sitting upon the fence.

Well, whatever the reason, I was glad to have my camera laying in the passenger's seat ready to go.  This guy is really big.  The photo doesn't do it justice.  I wish I had a gotten a little closer.

But this is as close as I could get before he flew off.

This is also one of the reasons we would go outside with Chloe at night for her last potty break of the day.  She has been circled by a few of these as well as the resident barn owls on more than one occasion.

A little later in the afternoon, we found a grasshopper on one of Bryce's boots.  Now, I'm not usually keen on picking up crawly things but when I was a kid I would catch grasshoppers all day long growing up in Penngrove.  I thought it was so much fun.  And I haven't done it since, until this day.  And it was just as fun!

I wanted Paige and Bryce to experience the feeling of holding a grasshopper....Paige went for it, Bryce did not.

 And this is how we ended the day......yet again.

 Happy Saturday!

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