Look at that gorgeous oak tree! There are several on the property here and I'm so happy to be able to admire them every day.
They're beautiful in any type of season or light and I bet I'll be photographing them a lot while here!

My daily walk brings me to the tree-line with the neighbors where our landlord mows a path through the grass of the meadow for easy walking, which is wonderful since both his wife and I like to get our walks in every day!
This is looking back towards the barns next to which we're parked ..

                                         

Here's a little closer view. You can see the spot there on the left, just below the bright green grass patch to the left of the barn, where we're going to move to once the gravel arrives:               

The trees I just passed on the right hide a pretty little pond area ...

   

                              

And in between the oaks I've found several apple and one pear tree:

            

They're east to spot right now since the leaves are falling as well as the apples/pears!

                               

So far I spotted about 8 different apple trees and several of them have excellent tasting fruit! I see some apple sauce and pies in the near future!

Fall has brought out many mushrooms here as well, these are only a few of the prettiest:

   

So far the wildlife has been somewhat sparse but we're in a spot where we don't have much of a view (yet), so it's entirely possible that there are a lot around but they're in our 'blind spot'.
There should be quite some deer roaming around, as well as raccoons and coyotes ..

Right out our window though, this little guy (actually he's quite a fat one) shows up every now and than. Probably checking out possible new food sources:

Besides walking the property (34 acres!), I ventured out and followed the (gravel) road we're on that seems to dead-end after a mile or so, or at least ends at a T, from where the left and the right look to end in several (long) driveways.
One of these days I might try to find out if those are private properties or if I can extend my walks by following either one of them for a while.



In between the rain, lots and lots of it, the sun has only been out every now and than this week.
It's a petty, since Fall colors are at their peak right now and there has not been much opportunity to enjoy them ..

This is the property we're on 'as seen from the road' .. and below you can just see a red barn hiding behind a row of maples at the very end of the road where it stops at the T.

                                                

                                            
This is looking at the hillside in the direction of Sheridan:

The last two days were also rather cold, water-cold we call it in Holland, that kind of cold when it's cold and damp and feels colder than it really is. That cold that chills you deep into your bones.
Time for some more hearty meals, like farmer's cabbage-'stampot':

Due to the move, I'd taken the opportunity to empty our small chest freezer and defrost it. Fortunately that went very fast and nothing of the food that I had kept cold in a few cool-bags had had the time to go back.
It also gave me the chance to see what all has been hiding in the depths of it that I had forgotten about, or that I had tried to forget is more accurate .. as in several baskets filled to the brim with blue- and black-berries!

Time to 'do' something with it again. First up .. blue-berry oatmeal bars:

As you can see, I was too late to show a pristine, perfect pan full of bars, but they were just too hard to resist ..

And I finally finished my farm-puzzle ... phew, a lot of hay and chickens in this one.
Not the easiest, I can tell you that!