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Pause for a Peaceful Sunset

The verandah view has become a corn view.  We are in a little enclave, surrounded by corn, it's sort of cosy, like having a hideaway home.  Here is a beautiful sunset we had last week.

Pause for a Peaceful Sunset

Interesting cloud formation and sunset combo!

Sausage clouds formed due to the winds.

Clouds formed frm burning wheat stubble in Mississippi, Summer 2008.

A combination of regular clouds, wheat stubble burning clouds and one of those beautiful sunbeam type sunsets.

Pause for a Peaceful Sunset

Here's a lovely sunset over the wheat crop which is almost ready for harvest in most of the North Mississippi Delta.  This was taken before the rain we got this afternoon (good for baby cotton, beans and corn but not good for the drying wheat!)

Here's a close up of the wheat...

Aussie Kim

Pause for a Peaceful Sunset

Spring in Mississippi - gotta love those Magnolia flowers!  This one looked like it was saluting me.....

Aussie Kim

Pause for a peaceful (evergreen) sunset.

This photo is taken in autumn in Australia.  If you notice, the trees are NOT loosing their leaves.  I didn't realize how much I missed leaves on trees until I moved to a place where most of the trees are deciduous instead of evergreens.  Winter does not necessarily mean naked trees, infact one of the prettiest sights I've seen is snow on the leaves of (Eucalyptus) Snow Gums.

Here's some questions that often stump kids, depending on where they live.  Perhaps you can casually ask these and leave them to think about the answer.

1. If the tree is evergreen, does it keep the same leaves its whole  life?  And if not, when do they fall off?  Are they replaced straight away?  How long does a leaf live on an evergreen tree anyhow?  If leaves fall off the trees all year does this mean they have to be raked up all year?

2. If the tree is deciduous, what is the trigger for the leaves to start to turn color?  Is it daylength or temperature or both or something else?  Does daylight savings affect when the leaves will fall?

Just some thoughts to ponder with your kids.

Aussie Kim

Pause for a peaceful (Australian) sunset

Pause for a peaceful (Australian) sunset...alternative title: "It's a bloody relief we got the Sorghum off in time."

March 9th - Pause for a peaceful sunset

Peaceful sunset photo - COLD winter afternoon................

Note the pair of Eurasian Collard Doves on the branch on the right - also watching the sunset?

Pause for a peaceful sunset - Canoing the Mighty Mississippi

Of the places I've been and the things I've done, one of my favorites, is canoing the Mighty Mississippi River with RiverRat and guide John Ruskey.  Here is a peaceful photo of him paddling in with a group one evening.

This is one of those timeless photos...

It could have been French fur traders two hundred years ago.  If you ignore the hats, it could have been Indians even further back.  Ruskies website is here www.island63.com.

Aussie Kim