Yes, I had to take a picture of our neighbors as they were out there in the front of our house. They are a nice bunch, not making too much noise partying or playing loud music. They don’t come and borrow things, visit at odd times or otherwise make a nuisance of themselves. So, you have to love having neighbors like that, don’t you?
Being out in the woods this time of year is really special. The colors are striking in the meadows where the aspen trees are growing. Usually the trees have a reddish tint to them along with the yellow and although we did see some that were like that, there weren’t as many as I had hoped and I failed to photograph the ones we did see.
Still, the contrast between the green conifers and the bright yellow leaves really makes for a nice effect.
I’m using Windows Live Writer to do this blog post and since it’s new to me I’m not sure how it is going to publish and since I didn’t resize this picture it might come out full size if you click on it so beware.
One of the things I used to love doing in the fall was burning. Maybe it was the latent pyro in me from all my years as a firefighter I guess or the primal effect fire has on people, who knows, but one of the good things about living in Greenville is doing yard work by fire. Yesterday it was drizzling and it was a permissive burn day so outside with a pocket full of matches I go. I got 2 of my piles burned and I have 2 more really big ones so I will wait till it's raining again before I light those. It's great being able to burn the residue instead of having to haul it off somewhere and since we have so many trees here on our property I have lots of needles and branches to dispose of. I'm burning some of the larger branches in the wood stove but being able to do open burning really helps get rid of the rest of it.
Sadly we had to say goodbye to our friends Brad and Ione last Sunday morning. I had such a nice time with them and we seem to have the same interests in the beautiful natural surroundings in this area. It was great getting to know them better and the time went by much too fast which is always an indication of how good a time you are having.
Our friends from Idaho are here visiting and we have been showing them around the area. The first day we went up in the woods to the place we like to find petrified wood. It was rainy and cold but everyone was dressed for it except me. Needless to say it was still nice to be out and of course we found lots of petrified wood and took lots of pictures.
as you can see it was a beautiful day so whether or not the fish were biting didn't really matter. Of course that's what you usually say when the fish aren't biting, isn't it?
Cutting firewood is hard work but when you can float the wood over to the truck it becomes much easier. We went up into Moonlight Valley today to get a load. As you can see there are a lot of cut trees laying on the ground right next to the road but unfortunately most of it is white fir and not a desirable species for firewood. If you look closely though, there are some pieces of douglas fir and also some yellow pine, both of which I will take when I am looking for softwood. Today was a softwood day so we got a pretty good load again. Tomorrow it will be back to oak and a lot closer to home. It took us a little over an hour to drive down from Moonlight Valley and I really don't like traveling that far to get wood. Hey, we live in the woods so I'm getting spoiled... ok? Oh, and levitation is just one of my many wood cutting skills.
