mysmallurbanhomestead

 There is nothing more beautiful than stepping outside as the sun rises over the fields and trees.  Even though I live in town all I have to do is walk a few blocks to see this view.  If I can't have a farmhouse in the country  then I'll settle for this. This  is just down a little bit from the photo above.  No animals today but sometimes there are some young deer that hang out here and a lone coyote I saw a fiew weeks back.  Also I have spotted several hawks, some foxes, and a few owls down through here.  I haven't seen any signs or tracks of big cats here but they might be hiding where I can't see or  walk to. These are some  flower shots I took while walking around.  Just some mixed things in first photo and the 2nd are daylilies a favorite of mine.  I remember my grandma had a pbig circle of these in her lawn when I was a girl.  I plan to implement these into my wildflower backyard garden. This guy and some of his farm...

  Between many waterings and a little rain the corn and green beans are growing fast but have yet to produce anything.   I am hoping to have a harvest of both before fall hits but we shall see what happens. The coneflowers have bloomed and attracted some pollinators today this butterfly was just happy walking around on it while I zoomed in to  snap a pic of it.  I can't wait to see if  it attracts birds in the fall and collect some seed heads to pass on. This pear tree is loaded and the picture is  zoomed up close since I was trying to capture a shot of a small bee that was just hovering around the pears.  I plan to make pearbutter out of these come fall when they are riper and bigger.   Speaking of bees, the catnip has flowered and the cats have let it be but this fellow was busy flying around it and I assume gatheering nectar.  Folks if you want bees plant some stuff other than haviang the boring square green patch of grass we cal...