Photos Of Nature Where You Live

[Sammy]

Anni -

Is that a German Shepherd Dog I see? I have one who's name is, funny enough, Annie. She is nearly 14 and the best dog/friend ever!

I missed the fall pictures and today it is raining leaves. It is windy and they are flying everywhere. I took a few the other day so I will need to see what they look like. Perhaps I can post one.

 

[Daisy_May]

Beautiful pics Pepperine08! I love the cityscapes... Colorado is on my 'bucket list'; and I would loooove to live by the sea. Oh my, I am a beach baby!

And Annie, your pictures are beautiful. I love the colours and the walkway--very homey feeling. Whenever I think of America I think of cornfields and CSI Miami. And the city of Los Angeles.. I forget all about your beautiful forests and tall trees! Cute dog btw.

And thank you cat!

 

[Iam]

Anni, your property is BEAUTIFUL! and to have a creek and pond, oh how blessed you are! I love shepards. I grew up with on. We have two labs now, but our next dog will be a german shepard. My husband is online every night looking at breeders and we won't be getting one for the next 2-3 years LOL!

OK....I FINALLY have DSL out her in the country! So will try loading some photos and see how it works. I took all these today. (Well my friend took the one of me.)

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Me driving the team hauling grapes today at a local vineyard
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NW Oregon sunrise


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Looking southeast from the winery
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Cows on a foggy morning
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[James B.]

Those are really nice pictures, Iam. So neat to see the countryside up there. Wow, you have a cool place. Thanks for posting.

 

[anni]

I LOVE this thread! Iams, your scenary looks an awful lot like this area, only tons bigger! I just know I'm going to drive straight into a tree some morning, looking at those fields and cows in the mist like that, the hills disapearring into it all. Part of my family is from the grape/lake district up in New York- it's quite annoying not to be able to drink wine because there are so many wonderful vineyards up there who are also wineries.I love your big team!! Ever ride one just for fun? Am addicted to work horses-like sitting in a friendly armchair while tooling around the woods.

Daisy, I'd missed the bear-hee! Is the same one a regular visitor? Ours makes off with the bird feeders and you find them mangled as heck up on the hill behind the house.My daughter used to leave for school at 5:30 or so,our lane is 1/4 of a mile long. She left in the dark one morning, 2 minutes later the phone rang and it's her. "MOTHER! There's a BEARRRRRR in the middle of the driveway!!!!!". I pointed out there wasn't a whole lot I could do, which wasn't a good answer, apparently.They are characters when they hang around locally, although ours here are not the formidable grizzly variety. My daughter did get to her early school appointment late, too, because the bear sat in front of the car for a good while before becoming bored and leaving.

TJ (named for the patron saint of hopeless causes-Jude Thaddeus ) is half GH half husky, according to the vet. He was a rescue, if you count my niece's college buddies becoming er, slightly inebriated and breaking into an old truck near their dorm where some awful people were inexplicably starving 2 puppies to death. The kids had watched this for a couple days, listened to the puppies cry and took action. I got a call in the middle of the night " Um, Aunt Anni, do you want a dog?". We're actually looking for a GH puppy at the moment now, too.

We're just lucky lucky lucky to have found somewhere with a pond, creek and all these trees when we were looking.Bears and all it's been such a blessing and life saver. My husband put the curved walkway in himself on the grounds he just always wished to live somewhere where there was one. :)

 

[Iam]

I love bears.....My mom has one in Tahoe that comes into her yard every moring. She sits on her deck drinking coffee having a "grunting" conversation with him!
Anni - Do you drive horses? The owners of the vineyard/winery also own the horses. They have never saddle Bee and I guess both have been bucked off Doc. I have a black shetland pony that I would love to get a harness and cart for....could drive her thru the woods!

 

[anni]

I drive BADLY! I just can never get it out of my head, no matter how intrepid I've been otherwise, that this very large beastie doesn't actually HAVE to listen to you sitting there behind the action. On top one has a decent chance, what with turning a big circle, etc, should one decide to LEAVE the vicinity with you on it. Hee- I have driven, but always with the thought in my head of 'Hmm- how long until this thing figures out I don't, in fact, have any actual control over it?'.

Oh Lord, have never seen a saddle OR girth big enough for a draft horse. I'm sure they exist, just haven't seen one. We used to scramble allll the way there and tool around bareback, although would not have attempted anything of the sort if something THAT size objected to it! I know someone with a couple of fiesty Clydies, and think she's out of her mind! I don't mind a thoroughbred breathing fire but a Clydie?? No thank you! I have enough healed-over bones without adding one more- or 6. Fiesty draft horses would be on my list of least favorite types. Is your Shetland pleasant, speaking of fiesty? I've just known many who were scrappy little thugs, that's all-the Welsh ponies seemed like more laid-back personalities.Think Shetlands fool an awful lot of people because they LOOK so darling.At least when one bites you it's not a very large mouth.I've seen a couple pleasant ones- just not many.

 

[Elizabeth]

Link RemovedView attachment 3786 I love living by the water. I had a little trouble finding the pictures. So these are just two of many

 

[Iam]

Beautiful Elizabeth...water is so relaxing....you are very blessed! I'd love to see more ;o) The PNW!!!!
Anni...I know what you mean about driving. I feel much more safe on a horse rather than behind two huge ones LOL! I was very nervous the first day, but was fine yesterday. Actually our sheltland is really sweet. She'll lay down in her stall and sleep with her head in my lap. She doesn't bite, but can be very strong headed.
would loved to have gotten a welsh, but dang are they expensive!

 

[James B.]

Really nice photos Elizabeth. Thank you for sharing.

 

[anni]

Elizabeth, I can only say WOW! Those are lovely, thank you! Water and woods- am admittedly kind of prejudice there. Plus you seem to be one more person who has the elusive 'take good photos' thing. Wonderful shots, at least to how I think of good photos!

I'm glad you got a sweet Sheltie-one of the only sweet ones I came across years ago was this little, hysterically funny STALLION named Barney. Whoever heard of a sweet stallion? He could jump too-like a gazelle, the only problem being finding a smalllll rider who could stay with him.12 hands, if that, he must have been.There's a field like a half mile from here, where someone has a nice bunch of Shelties, and THERE'S a picture I need to get for 'nature where I live'! Driving by early, with the mist still low in the field and those little beasties there-have to try not getting hit by a car, and pulling over to see if I can do justice to that one.

Sometimes you can luck out and find a Welsh at one of those awful auctions-kind of tough to fo to those since you KNOW who the dam meat dealers are in the bidding crowd. We used to go on the grounds that some people just don't know what they have, and take wonderful animals to the auction just to get rid of them. Picked up a few lesson horses and some FABULOUS jumpers that way, plus have seen Welshies go for a few hundren. It's luck, really, because sometimes like I said I think owners just do not kow what they have.

 

[amethist]

They are beautiful Elizabeth, what stunning views, on your doorstep too.