A New Year

 

I work hard, using brain rather than brawn, many hours and much stress and seek a place where I can escape to unwind.  That place is in my nearly 80 acre homestead, where I particularly enjoy working outside in my garden/orchard/vineyard and watching the wildlife that share this sanctuary with me.  I want to maintain this to keep a record of what I see and create.

I took these pictures on January 1, 2013.

We haven't had a lot of snow this winter but had some at the beginning of the year.  My garden space is surrounded by an 8-foot fence to keep the deer from devouring everything.  So far it works.

Some of my 90 grape vines sit dormant in the snow.

The remnants of last year's tomato crop still sits here in the cages needing to be cleared out to make way for next years crop.