March 16, 2016
April 12, 2016
April 18, 2016
May 15, 2016
May 15, 2016
September 2, 2016
October 2, 2016 – Tony Hertzler
October 15, 2016 – Moon shining through the boughs of a pine tree
November 6, 2016
November 13, 2016
November 25, 2016
November 27, 2016
December 14, 2016
This blog post will be updated as I get more “favorite” pictures to share.
May 30, 2010 – Mama Hertzler
May 30, 2010 -Gene and his dad chatting
September 22, 2004 -My folks
September 20, 2014
January 15, 2015 – Feeding a newborn calf in the middle of the night
March 4, 2015
April 2, 2015 – Communion
May 3, 2015
May 4, 2015 – Sunset
May 9, 2015
May 24, 2015
May 23, 2015
September 22, 1015
September 28, 2015
December 4, 2015
January 25, 2014 – Sunrise
April 2, 2014
July 12, 2014
August 12, 2014 – Can see the craters on the moon
August 22, 2014
August 31, 2014 – Peaceful scene by the pond
September 20, 2014 – Gene on Grandpa’s old tractor
September 21, 2014
September 21, 2014
November 24, 2014
December 18, 2014 – Buzzards
August 24, 2013
August 17, 2013
August 3, 2013
August 26, 2013
May 11, 2013
May 16, 2013 – Joe Hertzler
June 15, 2013
June 16, 2013
June 16, 2013
July 6, 2013
What a spring! Officially spring is just around the corner, but it pretended to start way back in February or was it January? Now that it is mid-March, I gave in to my spring fever bug and today I planted lettuce, broccoli, radishes, spinach and onion sets. Well…… confession time, I did “try an experiment” and planted some lettuce and radishes back during those 80 degree days in February just to see if they would make it. The radishes never came up and the lettuce only sparsely. The Red Sails lettuce slips look good but I have had them covered with milk jugs.
With the frigid teen temperatures we had this week, I am watching to see what will happen to the trees, bushes and flowers that have burst into bud. March is one of my favorite months. Maybe, because it is my birthday month, or it could be because new life is bursting at the seams. Surely it is a relief to wave good-bye to the blustery, wintery cold, and just maybe, it is that burst of new energy and joyous anticipation of summer fun and activities. There is one thing I do NOT like about March. MARCH WINDS! Maybe it would be better to say I have a very strong dislike for March winds and all the millions of twigs I have to pick up from my birch trees. It is amazing that the trees are not limbless by now!
In the spring everything is a picture; every blossom, sunset, billowery cloud, bird, baby calf, rain storm, snow squalls, etc. I am posting below some pictures I have taken in February and March.
Morning sunrise from my kitchen window.
Sunday afternoon fun.
Coyotes crossing the pasture in the middle of the day!
One of my mother’s beautiful African Violets
Repair job on the farm
March ice storm.
Ice on the tree tops and trees pushing bud.
This evening…..a rain shower this evening put water droplets on the sunporch window screen.
The sky was dark and stormy and the sun was brilliant as it dropped below the clouds.
The sky was so dark and stormy and the setting sun cast a warm, yellow glow over the homestead.
The cows contently grazing in the pasture.
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