Sunrise, Sunset

Thankful for the shortest day of the year signalling the onset of more daylight to come.

A unique sunrise from earlier this week

A stunning sunset last night on the shortest day of the year.

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Thankful Thursday

A Favorite 'Fence 'Post'

'Fence Post'

as in blog post

On this Thanksgiving Day I am thankful for

Tex/Wis Theresa and 'Good Fences'.

Good Fences was one of the first link-ups I posted too when I came back to blogging after a break. So I went back to what is, or close to, the first 'fence post' from that time; April 2014 

(photos from 2010).

Note that I hadn't yet picked up on the whole linking process and it appears I didn't even know the right day of the week-haha.

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A wild aster the RG didn't weed out.   To him, nothing is a weed

and from experience he knew it would be lovely.

Fall 2010

 Lucy looks like a bride

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Theresa, I wish you all the best as you change directions in your journey.
Be Well, Take Care, Stop by to Comment.
You will be missed.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!

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Another Fence in the Neighborhood

Possibly to deter deer from the garden. 

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Our Fence's

view of  a late, late bloomer.

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Elk County Menagerie

Turkeys and Bears and Elk Oh My

Deer and Racoons too.

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Apropos

for the area  

This is the gate at the 

Elk Country Visitor's Center

at Benezette, PA.

It truly is Elk country. So much so 

that this north central mountainous Pennsylvania county 

is named Elk County. 

These majestic animals roam around everywhere 

and I doubt there are very many gates or fences 

that keep them out.

They can be seen in early morning and evening 

just about anywhere. 

But it takes a little more roaming 

to find them during the day.

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Along the Clarion

I don't suppose this private residence entrance along 

the Clarion River in the area of Cook Forest

has been here as long as the ancient trees 

but I would say it has some age.

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Just Around the Corner

When we first moved to this little neighborhood

ours was the third house on open fields that had been a potato farm.

One of the first things we noticed was no birdsong - nada.

Well over the next 40 years things have changed

as evidenced by this neighbor's trees.

Now each morning we wake to birdsong from dawn to dusk.

A simple pleasure.

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Popped Into View

As we drove slowly down an access road

to a Pymatuning Lake boat launch,

we were peering through the brush 

to see a fawn that ran that way and suddenly 

there was this fence (or remainder there of)

What appears to be the remains of an animal

is in fact a bundle of dead leaves.

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Rugged but . . .

functional.

It's twin was across the road

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I've Come to a Conclusion

Fences in western P. A. are more utilitarian than fancy.

There is a fence in there

But if its purpose is to keep out the wild life, 

it's not working.

At least as long as they feast here, 

someone's corn is safe.

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Under Control

A fence for keeping the cucumbers in line.

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It's the Neighborly Thing to Do - 30 June 2016

While checking on the neighbor's place, 

I snapped a picture of their fence and flowers.

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Unexpected 23 June 2016

Ventures: an undertaking involving uncertainty of the outcome.

We were returning from our early morning jaunt to the lake.

(for a half hour or so, the RG casts his line along the shore.

I wander around with my camera.)

As we approached our driveway, the RG stopped on the road. 

Right to our left, 
were a white-tailed doe and her fawn.

She took a long look at our big red truck

and then slowly moved forward behind some pine trees.

We drove slowly past our house knowing 

she would appear a little further up the road.

We weren't disappointed. There she was prancing along.

And wouldn't you just know . . .

the scene was complete with 'a fence'.

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Outstanding or Standing Out? 16 June 2016

Not an outstanding fence but it appeared 

over the edge of the rolling terrain in the distance

and stayed in view as we wound around an 'S' curve.

On the other hand, it does stand out 
in the midst of all the green.

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Decoration Day

Embellished for Decoration Day 2016

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The neighbor's fenced in blueberries

seem to have weathered the cold this week.

 And with the help of this uber bumblebee

these blossoms should produce lots of berries.

uber-

ˈo͞obər/

denoting an outstanding or supreme example 

of a particular kind of person or thing

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Continuing to highlight Preston Park this week.

I have been past this entrance untold times in my life

and only learned its unique history today.

Frank Preston always admired iron gates of the type seen at great estates when he was growing up in Leicester, England. He drove several times a year to Toledo, Ohio to consult with Owens glass. Each trip he noticed this gate on a farm in Ohio. He located the gate owner and purchased the gate. 

Preston had wanted to build a grand house a few miles away or on the property. In 1956, the year of renovations, the gates were erected. Columns and sweeping buttresses of concrete are covered with the Roman brick facing.  

Jane Preston was content with a simple life in the small apartment and the grand house was never built. There was one grand procession through the gates when they were completed and they were opened only one or two more times.

Preston Laboratories is an 87.5-acre property. 

It was the glass science research facility and later residence 

of Dr. Frank W. Preston and wife Jane Hupman Preston.

Rather than building a separate residence the Preston's 

lived in an apartment above the lab.

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Fences abound at the local fair ground.

Lots of fences in the area of the horse barns.

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Baseball season is pretty much a year round sport in Arizona.

Ball park fences abound.

Peering through the fence at the Little League ball park

and I just might know #1 ;)

oops, edit to add this one after publishing

And then the moon began to rise through the fence.

 And still shining through at the end of the game.

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