About a week ago, I took this picture of the pasture across the road from our house. Sorry it's not any closer, but it would have cut out the number of geese that there are. Below is a closer shot. We moved to this home at the first of this year, so we are experiencing the seasons in a new way here. There is a large pond somewhere behind us that I've only seen by Google satellite images. During the summer, we could hear what sounds like hundreds of frogs as night fell. Also, there has been a smaller gaggle of geese that fly from the pond behind to the smaller pond and pasture across from us. Sometimes it looked like you could reach up and touch them as they came in for a landing. In September we began to see larger numbers, I would assume, from migrating geese passing through. They would spend all day grazing the pasture like a herd of cows. The last few days I have not seen or heard any, so they must have moved on a little further south.
Alabama has been having some weather that actually feels like fall. This is not always the case around here. There have been years that it was warm at Christmas. I love autumn, so I am loving these cooler than normal temps. A couple of weeks ago, on my last Saturday off, Kerry and I headed to Tennessee to David Crockett State Park. We had been camping there before with my brother and his family some years ago when the girls were young.
The fall color has not started yet, but it was still a peaceful, beautiful spot. All of these shots were taken at the creek and falls. We did take a short hike through the woods, but didn't get any good pictures there.
My favorite pics of the day are the one above and the one below.
These are all various shots of the same falls.
A look downstream, as the creek meanders on through the woods.
We enjoyed seeing the park again and reliving memories of watching our children play there when they were young. Moments like these remind you again of how fast time flies.
The park is located not too far from a large Amish community. After we left, we drove that way and took the scenic drive to see the farms. The Amish don't want their pictures taken so I only tried to get a couple of shots of the fields. There were several acres of sheaved corn, which you don't see much anymore. The pics weren't all that good, though. Unfortunately we forgot to get some cash before we left home, so we were unable to stop and purchase any of the canned or baked goods or vegetables that were for sale from various farms. We did buy some peanut brittle from a small flea market nearby. It was locally made, although not Amish and I found a lovely little handcrafted wooden tray. The back of it right below, which is cool enough, I think.
Then here is the front. I may hang it on the wall now as part of a grouping of wooden boxes for which I seem to have a "thing" among the other collections I also have. Eventually it may end up as an assemblage base, if I ever get my artistic head back on my shoulders again.
Tonight we are expecting a low around 39, almost winter-like around here. I am loving it! We haven't even turned our heat on yet. This is the time of year we save money on our heating/cooling bill. Being so hot-natured we have our air set on 70, but until it gets consistently cold, we don't need any heat.
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