Thursday, June 17, 2010

Pasture ride...

If you read my post about Charlotte and Zach's wedding, then you saw mention of a ride through the pasture. My parents live out in the middle of nowhere on a little less than 200 acres in the Hill Country. While I do not like the city of Llano (I only went to high school there...) nor do I want to ever live there, I do like my parent's land. You have a little bit of everything...granite outcroppings, fishing ponds, hills and open pastures. My dad has two of his open pastures planted with Coastal hay. If you want more information regarding hay and hay production, please call Kyle, he can tell you everything you need to know and I won't sound like an idiot.  I know all about rice farming, but hay, no clue.

Anyway, last weekend while we were at my parent's for the wedding, my dad had his two pastures of hay cut. I am sure they bailed the hay Monday so I don't have any pictures of that. During our ride through the pasture on my dad's Ranger, I tried to take lots of pictures. Luckily it had recently rained there so things were fairly green.

I just love riding around the pastures in the evenings. I did this with my dad when I was in high school and we did this when we had a deer lease (before we bought this place) and even when we were checking on the fields when we lived in Manvel. There is just something peaceful about that ride late in the evening. This particular evening everyone but the three of us (me, Kyle and Taryne) were at the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner for the wedding. So we set out to enjoy the evening and give Taryne her very first ride on a Ranger.

The back pasture after the hay was cut...

This huge hill is behind our property...

The was a huge oak tree, but the week before the wedding a storm came through and lightning struck it and blew it apart...you can't see the gate that would normally close here, but I made it in shop class in high school...

If you look real close, you can see the deer...

Sunset from the front pasture...

Cows...

Yucca bloom...

Me and Taryne after the ride...I remembered I needed a picture of her in the Ranger!

Until next time...Gig'em!

1 comment:

Tanya said...

Great pictures!!

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