Daily Farm Photo: 9/15/06

Always Start Your Day With A Good Breakfast
A year of Daily Photos ago:
What Color Are These Volunteer Balsam Flowers? Joyful!
Labels: Donkey Doodle Dandy, farm landscape photos
Nearly everyone dreams of moving to the country at some point, but few people are crazy enough to actually do it. I'm one of those few. In 1994, when I was 26, I sold my little bakery cafe, packed up 200 boxes of books & antiques, & waved goodbye to my native California. Armed with a very basic knowledge of gardening, an overenthusiastic sense of adventure, & lots of naivete, I ended up on a 280-acre, 140-year-old farm in the middle of nowhere. I became cook, gardener, shepherd, farmhand, vet, surrogate mom, wildlife expert, sheep midwife & animal undertaker. My prep school education & graphic design background were useless. I went from attending restaurant openings & gallery receptions to working the rural fire dept's BBQ booth at the crafts fair & munching fried pies at country auctions. Nine years ago I moved to an even more remote 240-acre farm which I share with sheep, chickens, 4 dogs, 9 cats, 5 very entertaining donkeys, & one really well fed farmguy. My life revolves around food.

Labels: Donkey Doodle Dandy, farm landscape photos
posted by Farmgirl Susan at 9:35 AM
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6 Comments:
This takes me back to my days as a child and my grandfather's farm in northwest Arkansas. Ah, you are living my fondest childhood memories. I'm just a "bit" envious. How awesome it would be to slip away from suburbia and enter into your kingdom for a few days. I would, of course, work for my keep. Skye Bird-dee could entertain with song. Perhaps I should switch my writing endeavors to fantasy instead of non-fiction...
Sandy in the Wilds of the Dallas Surburbs
I love the colors in this picture. The scale is just perfect--big trees and field, and a smaller DDD grazing. Well done!
Hope to see another "DDD hee-hawing" photo soon. My fave Dan posts are the one about "Donkey Daycare?!?!" (he's hee-hawing with Lucky & Cary in his pen) and "Dan always sounds the same: very, very loud."
Sorry, FG. I remember photo captions much better than post dates. You come up with such good captions for your pix!
It looks so pre-fall in this picture I can almost smell that ripe grass smell. Plenty of pollen in that haze too. Beautiful! I love the donkey-lamb in love pic too.
I love the mist in the background. It makes a wonderful backdrop.
This is my FAVORITE photo yet. it's so, so lovely.
You live in a pretty place.
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