photography contest

Hannah at Farmgirl in Flipflops is hosting a photo contest! I am excited to enter some of my photos. I'm (hopefully) going to enter one in each category, so watch for more posts! Here is the picture I am entering in the Nature category.

thistle {drying}

a little robin...

waaaaaayyyy up there,

and bird's flying.

the pump house

thistle

~hello~

Hello there! It surely has been a long time since I posted anything worth looking at. How I have neglected this blog!

Over Memorial Day weekend I planted our 100 strawberry plants, and we all worked in the garden (pictures to come). We got almost all of the tomato plants in the ground.

Dad finished fencing off the front of our property this weekend. Our dog Sweetie doesn't stay in the goat pen where she belongs, but prefers to slowly walk around patrolling the property. We live on a fairly busy street, and even though she doesn't go in the road, there is that slight chance she might. Now we don't need to worry about her being out when we are gone. How many times we have come home and she has been laying in the front yard, with a look that seems to say "Isn't this where I belong, close to my people? Please, don't make me go back with those goats and my obnoxious brother."

Here are a couple photo's I took the other evening. I was experimenting with backlight (is that the correct terminology?) where the light is behind your subject.

Have a good evening,
Ashley

wild hollyhocks

these hollyhocks just popped up amidst the weeds in our backyard, and a few other places too.

goat milk

Fresh raw goat milk is so yummy, especially when you milk it from your own goat. :-)

vintage scale

rooster, tractor, sunset

wood of different sorts

weeds in the evening

almond blossoms

morning

our Ford tractor

old{ish}

wire

wood & metal

old claw-foot bathtub

~family~

{more cuteness}

{me}

{ethan}

down Kansas lane...

or, photos from when we picked up our goats.

Thank you Mr. and Mrs. C for the goats, and for great photo opportunity's!

new goats

On Saturday we went and picked up two new goats. They are Mini Nubian's. They are both due in March; we will have fresh goats milk again! I took some more pictures of when we got them, but I will share them later as I need to go make dinner.

This is Mini Bits.

Look at her belly!

Here is Butterscotch. Isn't she cute?

tractor