292 - Snow or Ice

This is another of the shots I got yesterday afternoon, of an evergreen branch.  I played with the hue/saturation a bit to brighten it up, as it was coming dusk when I took it.  With all the rainclouds out there, there wasn't that much light to begin with!  

They forecast 30º for last night, so I thought I'd get to go out and photograph more ice this morning.  Not to be:  it was 37º when I got up this morning.  Very drippy, no icicles!  (sigh)  Oh, well.

153 - How About This Weather?

Day before yesterday, it was 80º.  Yesterday, it was 40º.  Today it's supposedly 34º, but there's ice on everything (except the road, thankfully).  If I remember correctly, water doesn't freeze above 32º!  What's with that!

I had to get my camera out briefly (it's COLD out!) to get a few photos of the ice coating everything.  There's some old Johnson grass stalks still standing (even survived the weed-eater this summer), and I managed to get a shot or two before the rain started back up.  Mmmm, this hot chocolate's good!

I know most of the photos I'm using for the 2009 Challenge are boring right now, but I'm having fun anyway, and I'm NOT a cold weather person!  We're getting one day that's 80º, followed by the 30s for several days.  Then it warms to the 50s (which is still cold for me), and finally up to another 75 or 80.  Weird weather!  Once it gets to the 80s on a regular basis, THEN I'll go out and about for pictures.  Until then, I'm staying close to a cup of hot chocolate and the fireplace!  So, boring pictures it is for a bit.  Sorry (but warm)!

190 - Multiples

These bricks are destined to be a walkway between the gate and the barn.  One gets tired of slogging through the tarry Texas blackland mud (especially if one is pushing a wheelbarrow loaded with feed, hay, shavings . . . well, you get the idea!  This is about a pallet and a half of bricks that I got on Freecycle.org.  Cost:  nada.  The young man was even nice enough to deliver them and help me stack them.  Can't beat that!

Even if there aren't enough to do the entire job, at least it's a great start, and the whole thing will cost a lot less than it otherwise would have.  (Amazing what you can find on Freecycle.org!  I'm addicted.)

282 - Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign

This is one of the most important signs I know when I'm hauling any of my little horses.  Interestingly enough, it really does keep the majority of people farther back than they normally would drive!  I find that amazing, because I never forget when I'm hauling, that I have living creatures in the trailer that can't grab hold if I take a turn too quickly, or stop or start too suddenly. (Which is to say, I drive very carefully; read:  slowly.)  It keeps them calmer and more comfortable if they're not being thrown around in the trailer.  Which makes me much more comfortable, too!

115 - Furry

Can't get much furrier than my little guys in the winter.  To body clip one in the spring gives me a whole wheelbarrow full of hair that I have no idea what to do with.  Some goes in the composter, some in the trash.  By the 3rd horse, it's going in huge plastic bags in the trash.

This is Mustang, waiting for breakfast.  Everyone's in need of a haircut (bridlepath and chin, NOT a bodyclip--until March!)  Believe it or not, he's a pretty sharp driving horse, and he cleans up nice, too!

129 - Green

Happy New Year!  

Here's the first one!  Taken this morning in my little pasture, just as the sun was coming up.  Off to a good start!