Kleckner Oasis – Page 153 – ~Oasis Among the Cornfields~

Thunder Sky

Many of the beautiful cloud formations I see in the sky is when thunderstorms roll through.

Or is the case many times, the storms flank us on the sides and don’t get the much needed rain.

Flower Garden

Various flowers of my brother’s flower garden.

Most of the flowers are annuals in this garden except for things like the prairie coneflower. Some others are dug up each fall like the cannas, glads, and four-o-clocks.

Fog Cooler

The Sun is bright and strong in the summer months. Sometimes if we are lucky, we get some fog in the morning that disrupts the Sun’s rays.

But eventually the Sun is too strong and the fog is all burned off.

Cat Milk

Here is the current lineup of our barn cats:

They gather twice daily for their goat milk buffet in the mornings and evenings.

Algae Blanket

My dad walked up from the cattle water tank and pulled this out of there:

A nice green blanket of algae in there. That algae grows very fast.

Born To Nap

As with many animals on the farm, I like to take a break and nap, too.

Sometimes it is not from exhaustion that I lay down for some shuteye, but from the sheer routine of it.

Fertility Mounds

Spring tends to be a lot of hard work. The barns are cleaned out and it is hauled onto pastures that need fertilized with the manure.

The guinea fowl are checking out what bugs they can find by these manure piles. When I have time later, I will spread out the manure.

Burnt From the Past

Even though we are moving forward in the new century, things of the past can present itself in the landscape. From a couple miles away, I saw a lot of smoke.

This was a prairie burn. Mostly switchgrass and some other warm season grasses in there.

A blue jay that was not fond of the forced friendship. It bit my glove and did not want to let go. This blue jay was happier when the photo was over and I let it go. The bird flew off to find its real friends.