Beauties of the Fall

 November has been kind this year.  Sunny, warm, calm, snowless.

We've taken opportunities almost every day to go out walking whenever we have moments to spare.

We have been getting ready for winter, putting a new ceiling in the henhouse, adding some roosts, installing a new infrared lamp on a timer for heat overnight. 

We took a drive and saw this iron mailbox.

 The chickens have been enjoying every day out in the sunshine.  The girls seem to appreciate their jean jackets -- you can see one of them on the right near the grass.

Cricket watches a coyote from under a twisted tree. You can see the deadfall that the last seven years' drought has caused.

The pastures are now gold and brown. The gophers are hibernating. Sometimes we see weasels and badgers running on the hills.

I converted one of the birdhouses I made to a feeder.  The pink tudor style is based on a building I saw in England.

Speaking of England, here's the English mastiff on English chintz.  Looks like they were made for each other.  I'm sure that's what Kylie is thinking.