Autumn in the Countryside

I headed off to swimming today and totally enjoyed my trip into town.  It's a magnificent Autumn day here in Corbett, Oregon!  Not a cloud, brilliant sunny blue sky, warm winds blowing.  As I swam I was at first sad and wishing things that could not be... but as always, as I swam back and forth in front of the wall of windows, watching the sun sparkle through the water I began to think of the good things, and count my blessings.  And I thought of my new blog friend, Kris at Simplify, and how today she posted on her blog about appreciating where you are and what you have... so I did.  And I made lists in my head of things I need to do.  Now I need to make a real list! :-)  (NOTE:  I didn't take my "real" camera, took these with my iPhone.. so they're not as clear as I'd like.. but hey, you get the "picture"!)

On the way home I stopped and got a photo of my dear hubby on his tractor, he's mowing the pasture for the winter.  I must say this photo turned out really bright, the red on the barn is a darker "barn" red.  

Then I decided to capture the moment of the sunny blue and zoomed up to Portland Women's Forum State Park to get this shot of Vista House and the Columbia River Gorge.  The wind was buh-LOWING!

I took this shot 50 feet away from where I took the other one. :-)

And I pulled over on the way back and got a shot of this great field of cabbage, this is what my "neighborhood" looks like.   I love it!

I got a photo of the pears on one of the 3 ancient trees in our pasture.  We need to pick these!  A few years ago hubby got in the "scoop" of the tractor and let me raise him up high in the tree to pick them.  That was fun.. for me!

Also on my way back from the gorge photo "shoot" I pulled in and bought these 2 pints of blueberries at Kirby's blueberry patch.  There's a white box on a pole there where you put your money, on the "honor system".  I see blueberry pancakes in the near future.  And muffins!

OK, now back to making that list...

((hugs)), Teresa :-)