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Boonville, Missouri
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Rural Missouri, where I live with my 3 cats and dog, looks like this. The roads may be dirt, gravel or black top & wind thru the countryside passing farmland and pastures with cattle and hogs roaming freely. I love to take leisurely drives on Sunday afternoons.
On our country roads you are likely to see an old farm wagon parked at the entry to the driveway by the mailbox decorated for fall.
And old farm implements have become popular yard decorations.
If you get behind a school bus on a country road, be prepared to stop each time they pick up or drop off a student because the roads are usually too narrow for you to pass; and anyway...it's the law.
Wildlife feed & hunt in the fields along the roads & it's not uncommon
to see deer, wild turkeys, and coyotes.
Or if you prefer walking, you can drive to one of several sites and
park your car at an old restored RR depot and hike or bike ride the old Katy Trail that also winds thru the countryside following the old RR lines.
When the garden has finished producing, the major task in fall is leaf raking...& leaf raking...& leaf raking! I compost a lot and burn the rest.
When I think of Fall, I think of mums...they come in all colors, are easy to grow & will come back each year in your garden, although I have lost some if we have a hard winter.
Bittersweet grows wild here and makes a pretty fall decoration. I've gathered it growing on a farm fence & planted it on mine but you must have a male & a female plant to produce berries & mine never did.
This area is in a flyway for geese migration and I see their V-formations throughout the fall overhead and love to hear their honking. They stop to feed in the cornfields and drink from farm ponds. Last year a friend and I spotted a huge flock resting in grasslands along the Missouri River.
Farmers can usually start the hay harvest in August here and often are even on the 2nd cutting by mid-month. The fields and pastures are dotted with rows of giant round bales like these, some stored in hay barns, some left in fields covered with tarps. In my day, the bales were square shaped & smaller and were stacked atop each other in hay lofts in the barn.
There are many local orchards here and the "Pick Your Own" ones are popular as the price is lower.
Apples are harvested in August thru end of November depending on the species maturity date.Many owners also make & sell applesauce, apple butter, fresh pies and tarts, caramel apples, etc at their markets set up on the orchard grounds.
This area is about 40 mi from me along the Missouri River where the bluffs are beautifully colored in the fall. There's a winery in the area that gives tours with wine & cheese tasting and across the way is a nice restaurant with outdoor tables overlooking the river.
I'm so glad you came by & hope you'll come again. I love company & try to add new pix often so you'll have something new to view.
Enjoy your Autumn wherever you are.
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Your Fall pg is lovely....as all your pages are , very cool and rainy here all week - not even 70 - hope we still get some warmer weather before the snow flies, enjoy your day, hugs from Margaret
