The entire south pasture looks like this.

This summer, the pond was surrounded by wildflowers, knee deep grass, and blackberry bushes.

Looking northeast from the tall tree stand, across my neighbor’s pasture. He lost his hay, fenceposts, a retaining wall, and a few months use of the pasture while it recovers. The cattle pastured there escaped injury. 

I got sidetracked with a project and didn’t get out to the pasture to move the goats until after dark. Not fun when that overgrown pathway is surrounded by thorny locust tree trunks and saplings like this. The goats were most displeased by my tardiness and displayed their tempers in various ways. Once again, I
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When I went first went outside, the frost covered the entire pasture. Half an hour later, the only frost remaining was in the long shadows cast by the treetops. This created an interesting striped effect across the pasture, which I enjoyed until the sunlight fell full upon the pecan tree I was standing under and
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The view to the west from the deer stand. Isn’t my neighbor’s pasture lovely? Photo by LauraP