Scenes from the road...

I went shopping yesterday, and on the way, I was stopped by an empty coal train. There were several engines in the front of this one--and since the cars were empty, a couple of them must have been there 'just for the ride'...(that much engine power wasn't needed for empty cars!)

This is the corn pile at the elevator next to the train tracks (where I was stopped waiting for the train to pass).

Apparently I timed my driving perfectly so I could see the beginning and the end of this train while I parked and waited.

This little Lutheran Church sits about a mile from the highway, but the field in front was so pretty I thought it would make a nice picture. The clouds were attributed to the hurricane Hermine winding down to almost nothing as it got this far north of the gulf!

We didn't 'labor' on Monday!

This is how Bogie spent Labor Day since it was WINDY outside. (We're having wind gusts to 45mph today, too!)

Queen spent the day in much the same way (as did a couple of the 'orphans', but they are quicker to move when I come near them with a camera than Bogie and Queen).

This is the native prairie that now surrounds the east, west and north sides of our 'yard'. It goes through stages during the year, and even though the flowering stages is my favorite, this isn't a bad view, either.

This is another neighbor around the corner... pigs and a pit.

Think they must be chopping this corn for silage??

September scenes from my 'neighborhood'...

So it was beautiful day and I decided to capture it in pictures.

(above) This is the east section of our yard. When we moved here in 1997, we used to play baseball in this field. It was our very own "Field of Dreams", and at that time, it was surrounded by a corn field.

This is a field of soybeans, just starting to change colors.

This is the corn field across the road from our house.

These are the neighbor's cows.

These are the two new calves this summer.

This view is from the top of a road south of Stanhope, looking back at the elevator in Stanhope.

These were some horses (one of them looks like a mule??--I didn't get that close when I took the picture) in the field on the hill where I parked to take pictures.

These last pictures are from the top of the hill looking around at the colors changing with the seasons.

(Yes, that's our big red truck in the picture!)