~~~"Late Summer Walk"~~~

Well today a break from the butterflies although I have more to post ; } just to let you know just encase your not a butterfly lover!
 I took a walk this week, and I need to resume a walking routine now that gardening and the hot weather is passing into Autumn, but the temp's this week have been in the mid-eighties, so it was 2 mile one for now!!

Golden Rod...makes you sneeze  ;  }

Curly Dock!!

I cut across a neighbors field road to the old barn and found the old wagon that he used

to hitch the horse he had to ...I had a ride in it "once"..lol

Notice that the Queen Anne's lace is still blooming ...there has

been a lot of second blooming this year, more than usuasl where the fields

have been cut !!

Gentle and loving goats belong to a new neighbors who moved

here this year adjacent to land across from  the barn!!

There are 20 goats...some are Nubian and some Boer's!!

Just a little blurry,but I loved this little guy roping to greet me!!

They all have collars on, and are leashed and taken for walks, even

though they have a large pasture..they like to eat the leaves along the way!!

"Oh these leaves are so delicious"

I don't think you can tell with the tree reflection on the

water,but  there is the river right behind this goat..

plenty of fresh water for them !!

Moving on I startled a couple of female Mallard's!!

Fall Aster's

I slowly crept up on this fellar only to find that it was only a

 shell of what it had been ...it wasn't alive...haha!

 I don't know what happens here... but I think it

was a Cricket of some sort!!

Late blooming Teasel.....Love those big old Grasshopper's!

I have more from the walk..may be tomorrow.. more, or may be butterflies!!