Fall at Redwoodshire

 Fall is an absolutely beautiful time of the year in Upstate New York.  Growing up in Southern California until the age of 16, I never knew the amazing colors of Fall.  Since moving to the East Coast, I have loved Fall more than any other season.  Though we don't have a ton of trees on the property showing off, we have a couple to be appreciated.   The photo below was taken from the road.  Despite all the trees blocking the view most of the year, in the Fall and Winter you can look down onto our little house and feel like flying above, gazing down upon the village- as if you were on the Peter Pan ride at Disney.

 We have a unique little spruce tree growing where the willow tree branches.  The field above is across the street from Redwoodshire.  Maybe someday we can purchase that field.  Below is the front of the barn.  The repairs have been made and we'll be ready to finish painting the rest of the barn in the Spring.  The Laird grew a few pumpkins and acorn squash this year.  The pumpkins didn't produce as much as he expected, so we'll have to try again next year.

  

The namesake of Redwoodshire, our Dawn Redwood is beginning to turn orange and loose it's needles for the winter.  It seems to have grown significantly since we moved in 2 years ago.  

The Laird and lady genevieve set up the bird feeder and filled it with food.  One of the joys of winter is watching the birds from our windows.  We enjoyed learning to identify all the various types of birds last winter.  

The Laird is cleaning up the dead branches at the bottom of our row of spruce trees- the left side is trimmed and the right side it what it originally looked like.  Definitely an easy way to spruce up this portion of the yard.