<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AEhZwZ4lbHo/YGDAtudfuLI/AAAAAAAAZ9s/M_EvdnXWXiIwq0mYTpgj9NA87E-E76PuACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_7258.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AEhZwZ4lbHo/YGDAtudfuLI/AAAAAAAAZ9s/M_EvdnXWXiIwq0mYTpgj9NA87E-E76PuACLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_7258.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My phone just sent me this photo taken of the Fuchs House just outside Vienna, Austria a few years ago, along with this one,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hmZazIHKn0M/YGDBFrz9YoI/AAAAAAAAZ90/KH89vwqn5gg_OEQsDIxDwOD2kwjzeL_BwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_7253.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hmZazIHKn0M/YGDBFrz9YoI/AAAAAAAAZ90/KH89vwqn5gg_OEQsDIxDwOD2kwjzeL_BwCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_7253.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">that my niece took of me that day,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">this photo of my train companions earlier that summer on a train ride through Morocco from Tangier to Fes,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aBPpr3RLSQM/YGDBcesI6fI/AAAAAAAAZ98/8VeqmY2LCVwt-2o40LWWdORJPetaUknjQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_5978.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aBPpr3RLSQM/YGDBcesI6fI/AAAAAAAAZ98/8VeqmY2LCVwt-2o40LWWdORJPetaUknjQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_5978.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>a random snapshot of street art I took along the Donau Canal which my phone says is the Danube, close enough,<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LkRvPXuhzms/YGDBvzDPWCI/AAAAAAAAZ-E/pI-Z_fw6iTc_E6bib41YMmtUPfR_nhzDQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_6605.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1956" data-original-width="2048" height="612" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LkRvPXuhzms/YGDBvzDPWCI/AAAAAAAAZ-E/pI-Z_fw6iTc_E6bib41YMmtUPfR_nhzDQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h612/IMG_6605.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>and finally this one of the thermal plant in Vienna designed by one of my heroes, Friedensreich Hundertwasser.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OX0Rlo_qMUE/YGDCWPI03TI/AAAAAAAAZ-M/HiN6cOFu_m0fyiZ4UFvqOEqUDjmu3zYKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2475.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OX0Rlo_qMUE/YGDCWPI03TI/AAAAAAAAZ-M/HiN6cOFu_m0fyiZ4UFvqOEqUDjmu3zYKgCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_2475.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Well....these definitely stirred the wanderlust which has been simmering...I keep having to move it to the back burner to settle down a bit as COVID is still rampant so I can't travel, except across the US. Pretty grateful to be quarantined in a large country, but won't travel until I'm vaccinated and my foot heals enough to hike. <div><br /></div><div>The photos also stirred a thirst for COLOR! It's such a grey grey day, with just a splash of gold, a surreal  brilliance - emanating from the daffodils and forsythia - and illuminating my foggy yard. Pushed open the storm door and found that it's warmer out than it appears. Balmy even.  So I wiggled my boots on (over the refusing-to-ever heal sawed-off ankle spur and her splintered tendon) and squished through the soggy leaves on a quest. I know there are tiny resplendent wildflowers if I just look. So here is the next installment of Five Minutes on the Farm taken on that quest, the first capturing some of the woodland music -  the owl's mating calls and the woodpecker's mad racket evaded recording and the wind against the mic is definitely not as romantic and scary as it sounds rushing through the forest, but it's a taste.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LQnJZ2jYM4Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="LQnJZ2jYM4Q"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div>I'm going to start posting contributions from a new project my son David suggested. An SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for the Farm for the year 2100 AD as that is what I am preparing for. Two black walnuts arriving along with some more blueberry bushes and a weeping cherry tree in the next couple weeks. They are all part of the plan. To be continued... Meanwhile, enjoy Spring!<br /><div><br /></div></div>

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  My phone just sent me this photo taken of the Fuchs House just outside Vienna, Austria a few years ago, along with this one, that my niece...

Five Minutes on the Farm #30 Winter in Quarantine

<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So the question is: where is #29?<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Found it!<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">On my youtube channel. It's only a minute and a half showing the destruction of my kindling pile, gnawed to bits under the tarp by chipmunks who truly created an architectural wonder for their cozy winter home. I really should supplement the video with the many imaginative burrows I have found - in the bonfire piles (I have two... just waiting... I was waiting for people to join me, but as COVID drags on, I will probably just wait for my foot to heal enough that I am comfortable that I can run fast enough to the spigot where my hose will be hooked. Sometimes winds whip up here in the mountains with no warning and that can be scary when you've got a huge roaring fire) and in the thickets. I've decided to take cuttings from my rhododendron, azaleas and lilacs and plant them all about to allow for more safe small mammal and bird habitats. The shadows of the hawks soaring overhead can seem ominous. And a beautiful red tail often sits on one of my fenceposts watching. An owl nest is nearby and of course there are fox and bear. The ground hogs have several deep and safe burrows already - a couple I am not pleased with... and it's not like I want them in my garden. Or the rabbits... but still, homo sapiens have slaughtered too many species to extinction and more nearly so. Biodiversity is my mantra for this Spring's plantings.</div></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oeBIdnXxDwY/YEDyocu6QxI/AAAAAAAAZ7o/kQDjuwDzsBA2hUrkt1JCGW6nqDlA8_DkACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_4591.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="328" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oeBIdnXxDwY/YEDyocu6QxI/AAAAAAAAZ7o/kQDjuwDzsBA2hUrkt1JCGW6nqDlA8_DkACLcBGAsYHQ/w524-h328/IMG_4591.jpg" width="524" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/67-2cXwZtbI" width="320" youtube-src-id="67-2cXwZtbI"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>

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Five Minutes on the Farm #30 Winter in Quarantine

So the question is: where is #29?     Found it!     On my youtube channel. It's only a minute and a half showing the destruction of my k...