An old home place, had been farmed and lived on for four generations. 
Purple Cone Flower, a beautiful herb. 
Elderberry flower is blooming all along the creekside right now. 
Dill head. Pickles anyone? 
Chamomile in bloom. Makes a wonderful relaxing tea. 
Wading in the creek with friends. 
Summertime harvest. Brilliant colors, delicious taste. From dirt to dinner.
Happy Independence Day to all!
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 Well, it's fall on the farm and the chores have changed with the season and the lesser day light has us rising earlier and going to "roost" earlier too. In the early mornings before the sun has come up over the ridge and the air is still crisp and frosty, I go out to gather kindling from the woodshed, the smell of hickory wood smoke and the sounds of farm around me- wild turkeys gobbling in the woods and the horses neighing at me from the barn and pastures- I love this time of the morning.  Mama has kept busy these past months drawing and re-drawing the Homestead Blessings Coloring Book.Every page is hand sketched and is a work of homesteading art- each drawing reflecting our life on the homestead and many drawings are memories and have stories behind them. We are very excited about it being finished and available now, just in time for the holiday gift giving season.  You did a beautiful job, Mom!   Earlier this fall we spent some time on the back roads up on the ridge tops gathering wild muskadine and fox grapes.  We made quite a few jars of jelly from these gatherings.   Almost every day we make at least one or two handwoven homestead potholders.  These potholders sure are handy around the kitchen. We love using them!  The other day we went out to gather the purple cone flower to make our tonics and such...  We ended up capturing some gorgeous pictures of bees on the purple cone...   The newest member of the farm...  A beautiful 17month old registered Quarter Horse gelding...  who is a beautiful red dun and a sweet little guy  Hannah and I look forward to training him this winter  His name is Pistol.  Our neighbors beautiful cows  What a pretty Jersey girl!  Here's a parting shot from the homestead, the peaceful creek meandering along, the tire swing hanging on the sugar maple, brilliant autumn colors... simple homestead blessings!
 Beautiful colors of the summer garden.  Pickin' peas in our friends pea patch,   They have a pretty little homestead back in the holler.  We picked 5 bushels in just a couple of hours!  The front porch swing is the perfect place to shell these Christmas Lima Beans.  These beans are so pretty when you shell them, but when they cook they turn brown! Oh, well. They'll still taste good.  Pink Eyed Purple hull peas- sooo good with buttermilk cornbread. You can find a recipe for peas and cornbread in our homestead cookbook!  We shelled peas till our fingers turned purple {from the hull, of course!}  Canning them up!   This was the view from our front porch the other evening.
Beautiful colors of a summer sky.  We're back on the homestead after a trip out West to see Granny. Glad we got to go, but glad we are home again too. The garden is overflowing with veggies and weeds and we have been canning up a storm! One of the prettiest things in the garden are the zinnias that are in full bloom. We love to grow zinnias as they are bright and colorful and bloom till late fall.   The luffa gourds are doing real well and climbing up the trellis we built.  Green beans.  Tomatoes and green beans.   Harvesting potatoes...  One potato, two potato, three potato, four...   It's always nice to have time to make some mountain music!
 Getting ready to do a photo shoot for our new up and coming CD, "Farmer's Daughter"  Here's your sign!  It's suppertime on the farm  Recording in the studio  Canning Corn...      ...And a' shuckin' them corn husks    Green beans, pineapple, green tomatoes and corn for our winter storage so far.  For more on canning, check out our DVD "The Art of Canning" here  summer's bounty in the frying pan   And we had little visitors on our porch this afternoon!
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