9/22/14 The Morning Coffee: Cathedral Window

And a Good Morning to you. Hope you had a nice weekend.

So there's an interesting thing that happens with the light in my yard, at this time of year:

There's an opening in the trees that leads back to the soybean field. When the sun gets low in the sky, the light comes through the opening.

From the house it looks like a narrow strip of light falling across the yard...

...But when I went out there it's a wider wedge of light that comes to a point like a cathedral window. It's pretty.

I haven't gotten a good picture in my back yard yet, but I feel like I will. I missed a couple the other day.

The neighbors on the far side store their wheelbarrows out by the bean field through my gap, by local custom. They asked me if I minded them going through my yard to get them and I said of course not.

Hope you get through your Monday! Stay calm....

Mike

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[jim r]

We are also in a new home, and watched the budget to pay off bills become a fund to make the house more functional for our way of doing things. Planning is fun but it sure isn't anything like reality. We camped in a trailer for a week between homes, so at least our old one funded the new - almost!
Our home points more toward magnetic north than north, so we're about to lose the daylight in our 'north' windows; it will be fun to experience the seasons in a new light... :^p

[Ben Rosengart]

Glad to hear you're getting off on the right foot with your new neighbors.

[Clayton Jones]

Thanks for the photos, you are fortunate to have such a beautiful semi-rural home. But...who's going to mow the yard?

[Marek Fogiel]

Whaw Mike!
Your back yard looks like hell of a lot of grass to mow. You can choose now if to be upset for the poor climate, that will not let you cultivate exotic plants there, or to be cheerful, that thanks to it, your garden will be covered with snow for many months, thus relieving you from keeping it tidy. Let me know if you like roses - I have researched once the hardy cultivars you can plant even in Canada. I love fragrant gardens.

[Bruce]

Hi, Mike, as I write this in Eastern Australia, 07.30 Wednesday, it's exactly 5 hours away from our Vernal Equinox (your Autumnal). I always try to take a photo at exactly that instant four times a year wherever I am.. (Solstices and equinoxes) Makes for some interesting pix over the years... It'll be 21.30 where you are, so can we have a streetlight shot? Lovely pic.... Bruce

[Steve Smith]

That's a lot more than a yard!

[Glenn Gordon]

"so much depends upon a red wheelbarrow. . . "

- William Carlos Williams

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/guide/178804

[Brad Johnston]

By your way of thinking, lots of different people are going to live, over the years, next to that farmer's soybeans. I wonder if he or she thought about that before he or she planted. Or did the real estate people tell the farmer what most of the people want to live next to most of the time?
Soybeans are actually quite friendly. I lived next to a patch once upon a time. Hunters brought their shotguns too close to the house one Fall, but otherwise the Soys were friendly neighbors.
I should have titled this "What is the Universal Beige of Crops?"