The Old Folks Home

[getaclue]

CanuckBock, I like your rocks, especially the one that looks like a cracked egg.

 

[gryeyes]

Yesterday, a friend and I went to opening day at Daffodil Hill, just outside of Volcano (California).

Those are just a few of the

blossom photos I took with my cell phone. We got there as the place opened, beautiful in the early morning light.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Yesterday, a friend and I went to opening day at Daffodil Hill, just outside of Volcano (California).






Those are just a few of the



blossom photos I took with my cell phone. We got there as the place opened, beautiful in the early morning light.

I need to get up there

 

[chickadoodles]

I'm sorry Bunnylady, no offense, but I gotta share my pictures of my babies that I just got from Wisher last night! 9 Easter Eggers and 6 Black Orpingtons! My first ever chickens!




And wow Oz! Paradise Island is really coming along! I'm so jealous of all the fruit trees and exotic veggies! We will have to definitely plan an OFH field trip one day! I personally would be willing to stay in a tent on the beach and I'll work in the garden or tend chickens! :-D

They are so cute! Congrats on your new chicks!

 

[ozexpat]

I would love to see those daffies

In Carlsbad SoCal we have the Ranunculus.

There is a 40 acre field on the side of a slope that is simply spectacular.

http://www.theflowerfields.com/

not my photos

 

[Dragonfly216]

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They are so cute! Congrats on your new chicks!
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Thank you Chicka! .I'm very pleased with them! I've had a bunch of visitors

 

[gryeyes]

Well, Jason, it was my first visit and my "navigator" hadn't been in ten tears. I googled the directions there but depended upon her for the way home.

It was a beautiful day. Just perfect for getting lost.... We drove past Daffodil Hill AGAIN after having lunch in the bar at the St. George's Hotel in Volcano, which we kinda found by mistake. And then I think we might have been on our way to the headwaters of Sutter Creek about six times. Ended up making a huge figure-eight loop before we found Fiddletown Road again. But it was a section we had not traveled on our way up there. "Does this look familiar to you?"

"Yah, that double- sided concrete horse trough does...."
"Umm, Linda, that's not the only double sided concrete horse trough out here... It looks familiar because lots of places have them."

Apparently ALL roads go through Fiddletown, even at least one in El Dorado County. (Daffodil Hill is in Amador County, for those who don't know it.)

We laughed all day long.

Oh, and Daffodil Hill keeps a few bantam chickens in a coop on the property as well as several free ranging peafowl. The former were in shadow and the latter were ducking in and out of perimeter forest so I don't have any photos of them - but I tried!

 

[pickitfarm]

Trust me you won't stop with just these.

 

[getaclue]

Thank you all for posting your chick pics. They are all cute. I'm still waiting, and waiting, and waiting for my own to hatch. I candled yesterday. Used a small regular flashlight. Couldn't see a lot, but something definitely going on inside them. Got a cheap small 9 LED flashlight this morning, cut out 1 section from an egg carton, covered light and egg carton section with foil, taped the whole thing together, and I SAW A Chicken in my egg. Everything looked like the pictures, so I guess they will be hardy because they survived my ignorance.

 

[getaclue]

I cut a hole in my contraption too... That let the light thru.