White Pine Farm

Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)

I love the idea of leeks, but a Very Bad Incident some years ago led me to institute a No Leek Policy. Perhaps overkill but better than the alternative.

#Elle politely asks if she can play with the dog’s squeeze-toy. It’s okay, because the sock in the background is what the dog REALLY wants to chew on. 🤣 #kittens #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky

You're welcome.

Intense orange and pink sunset against hedgehog trees with a half dozen blurry sheep in pasture below.

Sunset.
For some reason, I'm digging the blurry sheep below.

Clearly, I haven't had enough time to garden this spring and summer because I got 2 blisters on my dominant hand from the first wheelbarrow of pruning today wtaf. This has never happened. ✂️🛒

Crisp fall morning
Sunrise
Rainbow of fall foliage🍃🍂🍁
Sheep munching fallen leaves along hedge row🐏🐑
Purring cat on lap🐈‍⬛
Earl gray tea☕️
Momentary peace

A ginger cat with green eyes rubbing its head against a white lamb's head. The ground is brown with some leaves scattered around.

🐱♥️

Made 2 zucchini bread loaves this am. Tried adding some coconut flakes. Yum!!

1.5 loaves left
Only 2 humans in the house 😬

I'm so sorry. Regardless of outcome, even if there is great sorrow, you try to give them a real chance. 💔

Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus). Photo © Enrique Shore
#birds #nature #birding #flying #birdphotography #naturelovers #wildlife #birdsinflight #beauty #chickadee #birdwatching #bird #dancingintheair #wings #feathers

GAH the things people throw "away" versus donating, freecycling, etc.
Even at the recycling center, I saw a ton of industrial kitchen grade cookware recycled v donated.

Compost is proof that there is life after death.

After the Eaton Fire, a Los Angeles Community Garden Rebuilds The Altadena Community Garden in Los Angeles was a rare space for the neighborhood. Its gardeners are determined to reclaim it.

When the Eaton Fire burned the northern Los Angeles suburb in January, the Altadena Community Garden still remained, but members were left wondering how to remediate the garden’s soil after such an unprecedented disaster.

How Japanese 'tiny forests' are sweeping Scotland Grown using the Miyawaki method, fast-growing miniature forests in the middle of cities can bring surprisingly big benefits for people and the environment.

"This wee Scottish forest is grown according to the Miyawaki method to grow them. Developed by Japanese botanist and ecologist Akira Miyawaki in the 1970s, it's a way of speedily restoring native woodland on areas of degraded land."
www.bbc.com/future/artic...

A New York apple orchard on a hot cloudy day

Farm workers in upstate NY shared this pic with us from where they were doing the final thinning and pruning before the apple harvest begins in late September. They tell us, sometimes they walk 5+ miles a day moving up and down these rows pruning the trees. #WeFeedYou

👀
Um, trail running???

PRIORITIES
Doggie wins
And therefore you

How old are they?

How is it Monday already?

A kitchen counter piled high with freshly-harvested tomatoes, mostly paste varieties.

Tomatoscape.

#gardening #tomatoes

Look at these perfect good boys and tell me why they’re still in my house 😭 Chicory & Satsuma are bonded pair and are still looking for their forever home together. Located Elkton, MD. Apply at crits4cats.petfinder.com

A week away from the autumn equinox and we're blessed with this...
Layers of gold, a whisper of cool wind, moth wings and a soothing peace.

I hope you can find solace wherever you are.

Sunset views across the croft and sea to Skye.

It's not even close: "The Grass Ceiling" is my favourite headline of the week.

Bravo, Irish Times.

A shelf on the book return trolley. The titles of the five books are Every Breath You Take, Every Move You Make, The Bonds That Break, Every Step You Take and I Am Watching You.

It's seven years today since we posted on Twitter that Sting had been in to return his books.

An apple orchard in Western New York that is just about ready for the harvest

Workers are making final preparations for the apple harvest which will begin shortly in Western NY. Early crews are finishing up pruning trees. New crews have been arriving for the harvest. #WeFeedYou

news.cityoflondon.gov.uk/shear-deligh...

Saw one in W Sedona on corner of Sanborn and something in early Aug. Nonchalant... 🤩🐯

we are all the 🐑 btw

Meow!
Trail? Neighborhood? Yard?