Hay Day

We had a great day today, the weather was sunny and warm and windless. A perfect day.

I've been doing some art journaling lately.... it's just a way to exercise the creative muscles. I did these pages a while ago... they are collages of images on which I've painted (the clouds beside the Gainsborough). The Chariot is a wine label, though I liked it because it reminds me of the Chariot in the major arcana of the tarot.

Tip: The easy way to remove wine labels from bottles is to empty the bottle of wine, then fill it with boiling water and cork it. Let it sit for a few minutes, then start peeling the top corner, and pretty soon the label will pull off. They are usually glued with an adhesive like rubber cement, and heat will make it pliable again and easy to remove.

and on the one below, I took a painting from a cover of a magazine (on the right) and finished it by painting the other side. That's a fun exercise, finishing or embellishing someone's else's art. I will try to get better photos in daylight, these are a bit yellowed.

It's dark when I go to work now. The sun was just rising when I took this photo of straw bales in the field. See how long the shadows are.

Today was Hay Day. Our shipment of hay arrived this afternoon, to feed the forty or so llamas and the horse Daytona.
This is half of our stash, we got 64 bales altogether.

 Here's the tractor that brought it. A lot of horsepower there.

Molly was going to try out the skidsteer.

Kylie checks the tires (mastiff included for scale).

Chewy and Molly both find something to sniff, they ran around and under the load while it sat in the yard waiting for the hayman to come back with the second semitrailer.

I liked this sign.

Have a Happy Hallowe'en.