Photos
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- My great nephew Sam Bradley decided he wanted to taste the dinosaur we had given him for Christmas here at Rural Route 2 on January 2, 2010.
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- The last sunset of 2009 filled the sky with pink and magenta and lavender.
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- A blue moon rose here at Rural Route 2 on New Year's Eve -- the last moonrise of 2009.
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- Betty White (July 2010)
Betty White (July 2010) is one of our three (three!) laying hens. She is the flock leader and was named because of her white ear patches.
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- Bluebell is a Hamburg. We named her Bluebell because she has blue ear patches. (July 2010)
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- Our big black tom cat, Rocky, likes to watch the chickens. I hand-raised him and his sister, Juliette, from newborns. (July 2010)
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- Laverne is the one in front. She is a little darker. Shirley is the lighter one. They seem to have more of an affinity for people than the other chickens. (July 2010)
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- Shirley is a youngster and will not start laying eggs until this fall. (July 2010)
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- Snow in April in 2008 weighted down the pine trees and the small cedar in our yard.
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- The sun shining through the "big pines" across the road from our driveway after a snowstorm in April 2008.
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- The ridges around our house in west central Wisconsin were covered with snow after a storm in April 2008.
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- My Shetland Sheepdog, Pixie, after a snowstorm in April 2008.
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- My great-nephew, Eli Roy, Easter 2008.
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- Randy and my great-nephew, Alexander Matthew, Easter 2008.
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- My great-niece, Evelyn, Easter 2008. (Such a face!)
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- A January sunset here at Rural Route 2 in 2009.
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- Thanksgiving 1958 -- From left, my mother, Norma, father, Roy, brother, Ingman, Uncle Sigurd and Aunt Othillia. I am in the baby buggy.
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- From the time I was a very little girl, I liked to be out in the barn with Dad at milking time.
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- My big brother, Ingman, who is 21 years older than me, helped me open my first Christmas present in December 1958.
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- I believe this is the proper way for me to be photographed -- with as little of me showing as possible! Well, hey, at least the cookie sheet is clean and shiny. . .
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- A Morning Glory here at Rural Route 2.
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- A pine plantation about a mile up the road from our house.
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- Fall leaves we saw on a walk about a mile from our house.
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- My red tabby, Gilligan, likes to help whenever I am weeding in the garden or doing anything around the yard. (July 2010)
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- The Candy Stripe petunias have a variety of patterns, I am surprised to see. (July 2010)
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- The galvanized tub of purple petunias and white petunias sitting on a large sandstone rock near the porch are lovely this year. (July 2010)
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- I planted some new rose bushes on the bank where the power company destroyed my trees last year. They add nice bright spots of color, but plants have wicked thorns. (July 2010)
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- Our little black kitty cat, Dora, loves to sleep on shoulders. (July 2010)
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- The Tiger Lilies I ordered from the grand-daughter of a neighbor who was selling them to raise money for her school are breathtaking. (July 2010)
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- The old fashioned day lilies are nearly done blooming by July 7. Usually they are only getting started around the Fourth of July. (July 2010)
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- Our little red hen house is built on an old boat trailer so we can move it when we want to. The run also has a set of rigged-up wheels so we can move that too. (July 2010)
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- My little tabby, Bobby Cat, likes to help me play the piano. She spends much of her time outside in the summer and inside during the winter. (July 2010)
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- Two of the gray calicoes from the 2010 kitten litter.
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- The little tortoishell from the 2010 litter of kittens.
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- The Tuxedo Tom from the 2010 litter of kittens.
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- Are you going to bring breakfast or what? (July 2010)
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- What's that down there? (July 2010)
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- Peek-a-boo! (July 2010)
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- Hey! Something's moving! Can we catch it? (July 2010)
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- I am sooooooooooo comfortable in the tractor bucket. (July 2010)
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- There's that thing again. Maybe if we watch it and don't move, it will come closer. . .(July 2010)
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- "I can't believe it. I'm waiting for my breakfast, and all she can do is take pictures? Yes, I know I'm handsome. I might be nearly 30, but I'm still handsome. . ." Kajun says. (July 2010)
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- "Maybe if I look pathetic enough, she will give me my breakfast," Isabelle says. (July 2010)
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- "This is my best side. If I perk one ear, it makes me look contemplative," Isabelle says. (July 2010)
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- "This is ridiculous. How many pictures does she need?" Isabelle wonders. (July 2010)
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- "She thinks if she crouches down, I'll put my head down, too. Well, I guess I will. . ." says Isabelle (July 2010)
