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All of the seeding is done, aside from the beans! And the constant rain was replaced with a handful of sunny days, which was then replaced with wind. It has been quite windy for the last few days, so it's been a bit of a change!
Okay, my first couple of pictures for today! This is the evening of May 26th. There was a fairly nasty-looking storm
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Of the 35 pictures I have, only a few are of the seeder being used, but it finally stopped raining and we've gotten three days of nice (or at least rainless) weather now, so we've all been outside working on things that we haven't been able to get to. And I've been hearing (and seeing) the other farmers in our area getting out into their own
It's that time of year again . . . a lot of things are blooming, and as always, they all look beautiful! This first bunch is all from the 13th, so here we go!
Made it without skipping another week! 19 pictures this time, so enjoy! Sunset on May 7th:  And then a whole bunch from the 8th, so until otherwise labeled, the next photos are all from the same day. First one is a robin likely enjoying the not-snowy ground. Then three all around the maple tree. I had gone outside to see what my dad and brother were doing, and my brother says, "You should go over to the maple tree." So I walked toward the tree, and as I got closer I started hearing a humming noise that was getting louder and louder the closer I got. I hadn't realized that the maple tree was so popular with the honeybees this year.
  While I was laying on my back on the ground taking pictures of the bees, I could hear the tree swallows chirping nearby and sometimes they'd fly over my head. So when I was done at the maple tree, I climbed over the fence and walked down into the ditch, and realized that the tree swallow pair was making a nest in the same location as they often have in years past.
And I could be wrong, but since a male red-winged blackbird had just been perching nearby, I'm pretty sure this is a female red-winged blackbird.  Then I saw a little chipping sparrow hopping around on the ground near the house:  Young leaves on the May tree:  Okay, that's it for the 8th! Then we spent the 10th planting about 2 acres of potatoes.
Also on the 10th, I thought the very young leaves on the red stalk of the wild rose bushes looked pretty, so I took a picture. And then I noticed the bright green of the young poplar leaves on the western tree line. The way the sun was shining on them (and I noticed this same effect around the same time last year), they looked almost like they were glowing.
Also, I unfortunately didn't get any good pictures, but I sat on the deck until nearly midnight last night to watch the northern lights. I think those lights are one of the most amazing things in the north, and it looked so neat last night, watching the green ribbons ripple over my head in waves, seeming to converge on a single point above my head before fading away. So keep an eye out, because it sounds like we might possibly be able to see them again tonight! God's creation is so amazing!
Okay, my apologies. So much for posting more regularly. Something has come up every weekend since my last post that, in some sense, kept me from sitting down and uploading my photos. So . . . sorry, and I have 36 pictures to share. The sun on April 8th:  Rising sun shining on the field on the morning of April 9th, and pussy willows shining in the sun on the same morning:   April 10th: Neat-looking clouds; robin sitting in the pussy willows
Still April 10th: The pussy willows down our tree line looked almost like snow; male downy woodpecker in the tree
April 10th continued: Drying-out field, soil almost ready to be worked; and finally the sunset.
April 11th: Sunrise, and there's a robin sitting at the top of the mountain ash tree. He was singing for me :) And later, the sun shining through the spruce trees.
I liked how these clouds looked on April 16th:  Snow on April 17th, and that robin looked like he wasn't quite sure what to do about it. Also, the snow had drifted across the deck and onto the top step of the stairs, which made it look like there was WAY more snow than there actually was. And then the snow was already melting later that day. 
 April 18th. Our shipment of potato seed arrived! (My sister took the pictures of this delivery as well)
 Another neat sky on April 22nd:  Sunset on April 24th:  A heron flew over on April 25th and landed in our neighbours' pond. I went over there to try to get a picture of the heron . . . and while I didn't get a good shot of it, I did find out that the buds on the tree branches looked really neat up close! And then the sunset from that evening.
April 29th sunset:  Another (very wet) snowfall on April 30th:
And there was still snow on the trees on May 1st.  Sun in the clouds on May 2nd:  And then out into the field to cultivate on May 4th! I was riding in one tractor with my dad, and my brother was driving the other tractor. They cultivated one side of the field, and then Dad and I disked the other side. I love how the dirt looks when there are alternating strips of worked and unworked dirt like that.
 Sunset on May 5th:  And finally, a very rainy day. It rained a bit yesterday, but it's been coming down pretty much all morning now, and we've got puddles all over the place. (And there's a blue jay hanging out in the front yard, right underneath where the bird feeders were all winter, so he's probably found some grain.)
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AuthorHi, I'm Leah! I'm the Shop Supervisor here at Cornerstone Acres. I love to read and write, play hockey, canoe, and spend time out in God's creation. I enjoy sharing our farm experiences with you through this blog! 
"For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him." ~Colossians 1:16, KJV
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