July on the Farm-2015

{ July 20, 2015 @ 4:05 pm } · { Country Living, Life on the Farm }
{ Tags: Better Boy tomatoes, Black-eyed Susan, Jupiter, Rose of Sharon, Venus }

I have to share a few pictures that I have taken around the farm the past several weeks.

Like the rest of you, my garden is producing a bountiful harvest-except for tomatoes.

Better Boy tomatoes.

I finally picked my first two little ones last evening. I have beautiful vines with lots of green tomatoes hanging on. They are just slow!

I am canning snaps and the okra is just starting to produce.

We are eating cucumbers and Incredible Sweet Corn.

The Hales Best cantaloupes are huge. Some critter was in the process of helping himself but I found it just in time. They are large teeth marks but it didn’t not penetrate the skin of the melon.

I brought this cantaloupe in last evening and it is 10 inches long and 7 inches high.

The twins.

The family portrait!

The cows were contently grazing in the pasture until we rode out with the golf cart. They had worked their way up to the corner where there is a gate into another pasture. They thought “daddy” was going to open it and let them in. The video clip tells their displeasure when he didn’t.

Big Daddy

Huge, fluffy, magnificent clouds.

A deer on the pipeline. I never understand why environmental groups complain about pipelines. The gas line is buried deep in the soil. The gas company keeps it mowed. It makes a wonderful place to see, take pictures and yes, even hunt, deer and turkeys as they pass from the woods on one side to the other.