Across the Road in 2015
/I thought I did a post like this for 2014, but I didn't. You have to go back to this post to see what it was like Across the Road in 2013. My plan is to make a photo record of the changes that I see from standing at our mailbox. To do that correctly I'd need to do it on the same day each week (or month), with the same camera, using the same lens, and at the same time of day. FAIL. Here is what I have (and it's probably more interesting this way).
January 22, 2015. 
February 5.
February. Almonds are blooming.
In this photo our pasture has started to green up because I irrigated in mid-March. Normally the irrigation district doesn't provide water until April or May but due to the drought we have been getting water earlier. In 2014 we irrigated in January. The green in the background of the aerial photo is hay or wheat or barley fields. 
April 26, 2015. The field has been bedded, ready for tomatoes.
May 3, 2015
June 9, 2015
July 22, 2015
August 9, 2015
August 30, 2015
This is a photo taken across the road, from Across the Road. (That is my pasture looking west.)
The alfalfa field that is the green triangle in the upper right in the aerial photo.
Beans that were planted after the wheat harvest in the are shown in the triangle that is the upper center of the aerial photo.
September 5, 2015.
September 9, 2015. It took 4 days, working 24 hours/day to finish harvesting this field.
September 23, 2015. Back to the beans. The dry plants have been put into windrows waiting for harvest.
September 27, 2015.
October 6, 2015. Field disked and bedded waiting for the next planting. I'm told that it will be planted to sunflowers this spring.
November 29, 2015. If we have regular rain I can't walk across here because it gets too muddy. There have been very few days that we haven't been able to walk. 
December 1, 2015. View of our place, looking west across the field. We need to see more green on those hills.
