This is beautiful: When you have your tomatoes out on the picnic table - to ripen --you know the season is changing from summer to fall - really it is approaching winter when this happens!

This is beautiful fall photo: When you have your tomatoes out on the picnic table – to ripen –you know the season is changing from summer to fall – really it is approaching winter when this happens!

Beautiful: When you see the herd all eating a serving of hay, yet the grass is still green, you know the season is changing from summer to fall. According to Pennsylvania Agriculture Extension: As pasture matures: Leaf % decreases Stem % increases Protein and energy decrease Fiber and lignin increase Pasture intake decreases So we feed hay - in my friends case - 4 times per day. Yesterday it was my job to assure the noon feeding - that is when I snapped this shot.

Beautiful fall photo : When you see the herd all eating a serving of hay, yet the grass is still green, you know the season is changing from summer to fall. According to Pennsylvania Agriculture Extension: As pasture matures:
Leaf % decreases
Stem % increases
Protein and energy decrease
Fiber and lignin increase
Pasture intake decreases
So we feed hay – in my friend’s case – 4 times per day. Yesterday it was my job to assure the noon feeding – that is when I snapped this shot.

Beautiful: I know it is almost impossible to explain the joy I can get from walking a 10 acre field picking up al the poop that hay produces - but yesterday was a perfect fall day. I took my camera and toured the property snapping shots - mushrooms, weeds, birds, and of course horses - I show you some of my shots throughout the next week. Oh, how often does a horse poop? Manure is passed an average of ten to 12 times per day, possibly more often with horses allowed adequate movement 24/7. We count on 15 x 7 that is over 100 piles each day!

Beautiful fall photo: I know it is almost impossible to explain the joy I can get from walking a 10 acre field picking up al the poop that hay produces – but yesterday was a perfect fall day. I took my camera and toured the property snapping shots – mushrooms, weeds, birds, and of course horses and horse poop.  – I will show you some of my shots throughout the next week. Oh, how often does a horse poop? Manure is
passed an average of ten to 12 times per day, possibly more often with horses allowed adequate movement 24/7. – this is According to a Horse News magazine.  We count on 15 x 7 that is over 100 piles each day!

Beautiful - When the geese and sandhill cranes start to gather you know summer is changing to fall. A goose down lost in the pasture with the morning dew! Is that pretty or what?

Beautiful fall photo: – When the geese and sandhill cranes start to gather you know summer is changing to fall. A goose down lost in the pasture with the morning dew! Is that pretty or what?

Beautiful: The fall night sky I think is different - or do I just remember my childhood fall chores - moving chickens from pasture to the chicken coop - to house them indoors for the winter, or husking corn because we did not get it all done by the time darkness set in, or..........

Beautiful fall photo: The fall night sky I think is different – or do I just remember my childhood fall chores – moving chickens (we always did it on a cool fall night because that is when you could catch the range chickens)  from pasture to the winter chicken house – or sitting on a hay wagon husking corn because we did not get it all done by the time the early fall darkness set in, or………many other fall night time chores.

Beautiful: No not me, dumby - - The fall wild flowers in the background - Fall is when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade!!! Oh it is beautiful to have the opportunity to sit in the sun and enjoy the season and the change. You see I get to see three full seasons in only 6 months. On Drummond Spring is May and June (40-60degrees) - Summer is July and August (60-75 degrees) and Fall is Sept and October (40-60 degrees) Of course each year is different - this year cool temps are early. Oh forgot to tell you winter is 6 months. 20 below is quite common. I like them all - but for two months or less at a time -

Beautiful fall photo: No, not me, dumby – – The fall wild flowers in the background are beautify;- Fall is when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade!!!  So, it is beautiful to have the opportunity to sit in the sun and enjoy the season and the change — and that I did for this self photo! On the Island, I get to see three full seasons in only 6 months. On Drummond Spring is May and June (40-60degrees) – Summer is July and August (60-75 degrees) and Fall is Sept and October (40-60 degrees) Of course each year is different – this year cool temps are early. Oh forgot to tell you winter is 6 months long. 20 below is quite common. Too much for me – I like them all – but not 6 months of winter anymore  – That is why I run off to Florida for most of the winter – and I thank my friends for keeping my horse, Perla,  and for staying my friend even though I run off – and I thank God for the health and opportunity to afford such a life.

Beautiful: fall with out color would not be fall - so here is the tradition fall photo!

Beautiful fall photo: fall without color would not be fall – so here is the traditional fall photo!

Still have a rose or two on it's way to glory - and I did not tell those is bud form that summer is over!

Still have a rose or two on it’s way to glory – and I did not tell those in bud form that summer is over!