Tis Autumn

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Bottomlands

No Trespassing

Back Pasture

Harvest

Rin Tin Tin

12 Gauge

Copper Sunset

Bovine Stare

The Alfalfa Butterflies love the Echinacea...

Cow Path

Submerged

Jakky and Si

Dragon Stained-Glass

Fence Line

Pike

Bufo

[sunlight through a mushroom]

experimenting with wide-angle...

Sleepy Eye Lake

These pictures were taken a month or so ago but I just haven't post them until now. I had just downloaded a 30-day free trial of photoshop lightroom... ;)

Ben and I were rock-picking in one of the bean fields one afternoon and as we made a turn with the tractor at the end of the field Ben thought he saw a Killdeer nest. We went back later to see if we could find it and I took a few pictures...

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Silas came along...
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.I don't really know why I took this picture...it took a long time to find the nest.

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But we did finally find it :)

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yeah, I don't know why I took this one either... :P

Monday

Granary Window

Shepherd

We've had a lot of rain lately.

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Our nearest lake is usually about eight miles away. This week, we don't have to go that far to find one.

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This is our neighbor's pasture. Needless to say, it's not usually this wet. :)

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...and this is another neighbor across the field. Nope that's not usually a lake...it's supposed to be a bean field. Too bad it isn't duck hunting season.

Then there were three...

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Our three black kittens decided the deck was the best place to spend a hot afternoon.

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~Whenever I pointed the camera at him, he'd wake up from his nap and strike a pose~

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~I don't know where the third one came from. He showed up in the barn yesterday and has been hanging out with Karl and Larry ever since... :) As of right now, he doesn't have a name but he is affectionately known as "The Boogie Monster."~