Seasons in the Valley + Furry Gnome's Adventures

The grain and canola crops aren't the only ones around here. The corn and soybeans are coming on strong, though they won't be harves...

At the same time as the grain harvest is going on, the canola crop is also being harvested around here. Canola is not a grain, but is an oil...

They're not nearly as common as wheat fields, but there are a fair number of farmers growing oats and barley around here - sometimes jus...

The biggest parts of the rural landscape around here are the farm fields, and perhaps the most obvious change in the seasons is the sequence...

I'm falling behind here; I think it was two weeks ago that we went and canoed a bit of the Saugeen River. It was a great day, sunny, bu...

A few days ago, the meadow (at least parts of the meadow) turned yellow again, this time when the goldenrod seemed to come into bloom all at...

We see lots of little interesting things that strike me as photo-worthy here and there. This tree frog visited our chairs under the apple t...