to everything there is a season

and a time to every purpose under heaven:

a time to be born,

a time to die;

a time to plant,

and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

Ecclesiates 3

happy september.

end of the line

i over think a lot of things....the photo contests for gardening gone wild is no exception.
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i told myself i was not going to enter this month because i think about it too much.
but once i saw a few blogs with their entries....i couldn't stop thinking about it...

everything i saw had lines...end of lines...both metaphorically and literally.


so here in the beginning of my post is
my entry for "the end of the line" theme of the ggw photo contest.


this way you can proceed beyond this point duly warned of my over thinking...
this first photo is of an antique red apple orchard~picking ladder...we have used it for so many different venues.

right now it is in the driveway leaning against a tree with an old garden cart at the base filled to overflowing with pumpkins and gourds and mums.

when i see this ladder i think of all the apples that have been
picked and come to the end of the line.

most of my photos that i chose to show you are literal...these

zinnias all lined up reminds me of all my child~like drawings with the sun

in one corner....the grass at the bottom of the page with

flowers drawn in a row across the entire page. see what i mean?

with our first and recent hoar frost...i thought of all the things that would

be at the end of their season...end of their line after the frost.

my sunflowers clutching each other for their last hoo~rah...

or how on a recent visit my daughter saw these amazing vineyard rows...

~photo below taken by my daughter rachel~

or how normally my smallish loose leafed lettuces got very

linear when left past their season reaching high to the sky with long

slender spikes with tender little white flowers.

then there is the wonderful curvy lane i live on where all roads lead home.

long expanses of fence line are all pointing the way home.

this is the road less traveled which makes for a therapeutic drive.

colours of autumn just enhance the beauty.

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the harpeth river runs through it and beckons you to see what lies beyond what you can see.

as well as does this long windy drive.....intriguing isn't it?

picturesque hardly describes it.

i love the way all the trees have their own

special qualities and colours that make them unique.

have to have a closeup of the burnished leaves.
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our neighbours have these gorgeous red bushes that line their driveway.

trees seem to call you over to take a look up there wonderful

textural trunks...to get a better look at all those coloured leaves.

lines of branches pointing skyward.

as we arrive back home with our tidy

row of fence line...holding a special treasure,

our precious horse, renny.

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hope you are having a happy autumn.

walk~in~shelter

we've had some nice rain lately...which makes for good puddle
jumping...creek walking...splashing good times.

we have also had some very warm sunny days...just
perfect for new projects.

now that the horse fence has been finished...the next project on the

list is a walk~in~shelter for renny to get out of the sun, wind, rain, snow.

i am so grateful to my darling husband for his diligent hard

work...our boys also pitched in quite a bit.

thanks jesse, ethan, and david.

renny is very respectful of the electrobraid fence...the dogs are still learning.

we have had some yelping lately...they will soon learn.

i really like the way the braided fence looks...it looks very natural.

there is 30 ft between each post so you can see your horse very well.

dh has never built a fence before and it looks professionally done

i am very proud of you, dave.

he has never built a walk~in~shelter either but that didn't stop him.

on saturday...we had a few more helping hands.

thanks to eric, nate, canaan, rachel, and ellery.

it was hot but the crew worked tirelessly to get the shelter up.

well between texting(anyone who has teens knows this the

one constant in their life.)

i was on the tractor cutting our acres.

our sons friend nate found these stakes intriguing.

ellery enjoyed handing out the nails as needed.

it is a good thing we had a few extra hands for putting up the structure.

my parents used to say "many hands make light work."

it does make it more fun and lots of joking around.

ellery taking a break from the heat. cutie pie.

as the sun set the last boards were being nailed down.

i took these on sunday. i love the way it looks.

after some discussion we have decided to double it in size.

we used the same rough~hewn lumber that is on our barn.

it will weather to a nice natural grey.