Freeze Dried........

These three flowers are held in suspension.  They stay just like this day and night.  I would think they would have shriveled up by now but maybe the cold is just keeping them in this state.  I saw them the other day outside my upstairs window and wondered why I was seeing color on the trellis.

The farmer raked up the loose stuff and put it into sort of windrows so the baler could pick it up to make 14 bales. I see that all of it wasn't picked up. It reminds me of a butch haircut with all the stalks cut evenly from the distance of the ground.  He will be back with machinery to chop and bury this all without plowing it.

A fall looking sky in Iowa on a Saturday afternoon.  The grass is still green, the river birch is bare, and the bales are sitting in state ready to be picked up by a tractor and fork lift. This is a typical view of Iowa right now with the lighter colored sky and no crops in the field.

I am (babysitting) watching a study hall today.  It will be boring but I am sure a challenge.  My first study hall is just 10 students so I am not having a tough first hour.  It does get more crowded as the day goes on with large groups of students.

Thanks for stopping by the post today.  Have a good week.

Penny......

This is the neighbor's dog that we took care of the last two days. Penny is a Jack Russell with a lot of energy.

She barks and climbs and jumps and seems to be such a happy dog.  Sometimes when you are sitting on a couch she wants to climb up and get on top of your head.  She was so glad to have her person come home late Saturday afternoon.

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Saturday's Shots.......

The neighbor's visiting cat now has his own self feeder.  He inherited it from Yellow Kitty.  Up to four other neighbor cats do feed from it once in a while.

Another kitty that is so scared of us strangers but will feed at the door when we are not looking.  She doesn't know we are looking at her through our front door.

This is a reposting of one of the others that does hang around in good weather. She is not afraid of dogs as was raised with five or more dogs inside of the neighbor's house.

Babysitting the dog next door, doing some work for getting Della's artwork, matting it for shipping, and getting a box ready to ship it are a few of the things I am doing.  It doesn't seem bad outside but 51 degrees is cool enough for me.   Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope your weekend is a good one for you.

Stark Reality.......

The side yard looks bad as all the leaves of the river birch are now gone.  My bike rests against it and as you can see my neighbor's junk pile is visible too.  Trees and foliage helps one to cover the views of unwanted sights of the neighbor's things.  In the fall it all comes to view.

The light shines through the burning bush as these leaves seem to be hanging on as long as they can.
I have the day off so I will be doing different jobs all day.  We may take off to the bookstore in the afternoon for a day away from the house and  town.  We have babysitting duties this weekend for the neighbor's terrier.  There was a death in her family and she needs to be gone for a couple of days.  Penny the terrier will be so glad for our visits as she doesn't like living along in her big house.

We have cool weather so I won't be outside to mow today.  I hope that we do warmup a little in the next couple of weeks so I can finish up the last of my outside work.   Thanks for stopping by today

Patterns........

Back in the classroom today.  It is a short day as it is parent teachers day. It will be a short week as Friday is a closed day at school.  Thanks for stopping by my post today.

A Preview of my Surprise.........

I was going to replant this into a larger container and did not get it done.  I guess it likes to be crowded in a pot. Future shots will be revealed on my Photo a Day as well as on this blog.

I am home today and have a lot of things to get done. I don't know where to start but I will stay inside while it warms up outside.  I wasn't expecting today off and yet I may be off all week by the way things look with the school schedule for the next couple of days.  No school Friday so I my end up with a five day weekend.  Thanks for stopping by today.

Granite........

This is a large rock in my garden.  I should do plantings around it but I never have.  It is so large and the color is so great that I don't want the plants to cover it with foliage.  The curiosity of this rock is that it is granite.  We don't have granite in Iowa.  We have granite tombstones everywhere but that is shipped in. I don't believe the glacier brought it to Iowa as it seems to be too large for the glaciers' movement to carry.

Anyway, my memories  of this rock are gone.  I don't know where it came from in respect to the 36 years that I have lived here.  I didn't put it into a trunk of a car to bring it home but maybe I did.  I am thinking that I got it from my dad when he was living in town in southern Iowa .  Where would he have found it?

I guess I will never know the history of the rock. Thanks for stopping by my post today.