Upde Designs

Sorry for the lack of activity on my blog of late.  I’ve been in a funk and just haven’t felt like working on images.  That’s done so now it’s back to clicking away.

I think I have shown this barn before but on the way to work Friday the sunlight was hitting it with warm color and I had to pull of the road a grab a shot.   I like the wagon sitting by the side of the barn and one other sitting in front of it.

I know, yes it’s baled hay or actually baled corn stalks.  The arrangement of the bales in groups of three is what caught my eye.  Plus the sun was nice and soft on this early morning commute so I had no choice but to pull over and take the image.

Yesterday I decided to cut the grass.  The temperature was mild and the grass was really longer than I like it to be going into Winter.  So I made three passes around the yard only to hit a water pipe on the third round.  Apparently the ground has sunk down just enough so that one of the blades caught the pipe square and that was the end of the mowing.

I spent the next two and half hours fighting with the tractor trying to get he blade off.  The blade won the fight so I put the tractor away and will give strong consideration to a new tractor come Spring.  This one is 15 years old and I’ve nursed it through several issues.  I think it is time.

Finally I’ll leave you with this image of some pellet stoves.  Or at least that is what I think they are.  Every day on my morning commute I see a different combination of these stoves sitting near the frontage road.

I assume one of the farmers near by either produces these or is a distributor of them.  There are many different sizes of stoves in the display.  I particularly liked the long row of this style.

That’s it for today.  I hope to get out and take some images this afternoon.  Mark has his annual “Cops and Kids” touch football game this afternoon.  This game has been played for the last 8 years on the second Sunday of November.

Local policemen and Sheriff’s Deputies play a number of the kids that are Mark’s buddies.  I’m not sure how the game got started but they are religious about playing in any kind of weather.  Hopefully I’ll have some images from that game tomorrow.  Unless the weather is bad. 🙂

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for checking on me Burt.  Enjoy your day and be careful.