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There’s a sunset thread and a sun rise thread but a don’t recall a moonrise and I didn’t feel like starting a new one so I’ll through this in here. First one I tried to take I forgot the flash was on and the camera couldn’t focus. This one almost looks like the flash was on from the front porch light but it ain’t any where near that bright in reality  

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On 10/16/2024 at 9:55 PM, JaredT said:

13 year old stalk chopping for the first time with the 1586. I didn't even realize the colors of the woods until I sent the Pic to my wife and she mentioned it20241013_134858.thumb.jpg.93caf778140949a450fd8fab505e3223.jpg

That one is worth framing! 

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19 hours ago, 1256pickett said:

That one is worth framing! 

That's an idea, what farm boy wouldn't want a pic of himself in a tractor hanging on his wall. Thanks for the idea.

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1 hour ago, JaredT said:

That's an idea, what farm boy wouldn't want a pic of himself in a tractor hanging on his wall. Thanks for the idea.

Good point. I like pictures of me running my pets. My current favorite is a J&L video of the Orange Spectacular tractor pull. Single best hook of my life in the 5000 lb. Farm Stock. I've watched it several times.

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Sun dogs were sure bright last week before it turned cold. Was able to see a full ring around the sun shortly after I took this pic

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Kattie pictured on the Rainbow Bridge..with all her horse's, heading for her destination on a Southland Station, 400 miles away....

She made it !!....all on private farms /Stations or back country roads....

Mike

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...shifting sheep on another Station, about 250  miles  further south than the Rainbow Station.....

Mike

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6 hours ago, mike newman said:

Kattie pictured on the Rainbow Bridge..with all her horse's, heading for her destination on a Southland Station, 400 miles away....

She made it !!....all on private farms /Stations or back country roads....

Mike

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It's a beautiful, though kind of upside down country you live in. Where you drive trucks and tractors through the water, and walk horses across the bridge🤠

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22 hours ago, yellowrosefarm said:

It's a beautiful, though kind of upside down country you live in. Where you drive trucks and tractors through the water, and walk horses across the bridge🤠

Ah....@yellowrosefarm.....its a worry alright...but here are a few pics to show you how far we have come in respect of the vexed business of crossing rivers..of which ,there are plenty down under....

You will notice dogs like rivers but do not like crossing swing bridges...

All bovine creatures do not like bridges either...to get them to cross a bridge....thus keeping the greenies happy  (no crap in the river etc...)...requires the copulatory adjective ,honed and polished to perfection....and even with this ability on side...as it were ..it is usually   cattle  1....Stockmen   nil...

The seed drill is to wide for the farm bridges...  (  incidentally,,,same bridge, top picture as Kattie's  'horse picture...)

It is all good fun...lots of Canada geese in these parts...they like to fly over the water...especially when the Geese cull is on...and a raft of shotguns are pointing aloft....

Have a look at a 'Globe'' sometime...where we live is at the bottom of the world...almost...it beggars belief that we actually hang on to Mother Earth.....:)

Mike

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5 hours ago, lorenzo said:

Mike , that looks a lot like one i crossed in the Daintree  ( Queensland) north of Cairns  . Where are you at? 

.......all  the pictures I put on this topic, are from where I work...unless otherwise stated.....

...top of the South Island, New Zealand ,either the Rainbow Station ...or the adjacent, across the river, Raglan Station..   (same owner...)

The Rainbow Station is 32 miles long....around 30, 000 acres, basically following the Wairau River, running from 800 ft above sea level to mountain ranges exceeding 7000 feet .....thus there is huge diversity and plenty of scope for the odd photo.... The high country is comprised of indigenous forest on the lower slopes...leading to open, tussock and scree  , open tops..where the Red Deer and the Chamois  live...

There are many Stations of this ilk, running down the "spine " of the South Island of NZ...mostly of considerable more area than the Rainbow Station....

...and that , Lorenzo, is our geography lesson for today...:)

Mike

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Some beautiful county over there Mike. Always enjoy seeing it and learning about it. Thanks for sharing.

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Maybe not awesome but sure like seeing these things.  With our coop mess and rising cost in WA we may just have to "punt" with milking.  At 50 how much equity do you burn down for a losing $ life?  This stuff will be the most missed no matter how I look at it...

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...back to the mundane after Troy's great pictures.....Thanks !!

,,this is a beautiful animal....Red Deer, bred  for some  fiscally bloated  overseas ''hunter''  to shoot it ..thus claim a great trophy....which it is, of course, but  if you could see the grueling   40 yard walk from the Land Cruiser to the dead animal...it makes you shake your head.....however, the market for this is very strong...so that is how the deer falls......

Picture from a South Island  Deer farm....

Mike

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...bull   Thar surveying his domain.,.secure   (?!!) in his rocky elevation point, high above the valley floor, in the Southern  Alps    (South Island ..NZ )

My friend, Scott   Walker, took this picture...my legs have no interest anymore, in climbing that high...:(

Mike

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...''Burls'  on trees are of great interest to wood turners...In New Zealand , I have seen some really big ones in our "'

Beech '' trees..however, they pale into total insignificance as compared with this   absolute  monster  of a 'burl'  on this Redwood  (??)  log , that we came across in Bella Coola   (BC )last year...

You will notice the total insignificance of the " Pensioner'  ....standing near by......<_<

Mike

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