Beginnings

I thought I would start a blog on my place here in the country.  Regardless of the weather or time of year, I walk the place every day.  Perhaps the place to begin would be to describe Iten's Acres.  It's really a cow pasture with an old barn-like structure on it that I call "home."  It's approximately six and a half acres.  The front of the property is fairly open though from late spring to autumn you would have a tough time even seeing the house from the road in front (County Road 25).  The driveway is more path than driveway, but I love it that way.  If there wasn't an old beat up mail box at the entrance, you probably wouldn't think that there even was a house back there.  The driveway is not straight but curves its way back to my abode.
There are three huge trees on the front of the property--a massive pine tree, a large old red maple at the turn in the driveway, and a majestic dead tree in front of the pond.  The pond is more bog than pond since most of it is enveloped with cattails--the noisy home of red-winged blackbirds most of the spring and summer.  Around the pond is a true bog; the product, I'm sure, of the digging of the pond.  By mid-summer the grass in here is over my head forming nice little pathways around the pond itself.
Around the house/cave/barn are a couple of pines and an old walnut tree.  Someday I will get rid of the walnut tree.
Almost directly behind the house is a strand of trees.  It's really quite small depth wise--maybe twenty yards, but in stretches the width of my property.  There is a small stone path through the woods to the back of the acres.
When I first arrived, the back of the acres was all grown up and wild.  I bush hogged the place and now it is open.  There is a small hill in back to the lower "plateau," a great deal of which I have let grow back to form a wild flower area.  I have mowed a number of paths through the wildflower area and left about ten yards behind it in grass.  Two-thirds of the property is in this back area.  I leave "margins" on the sides of the property even up at the top where I keep it cleared.
I have added twenty or so garden plots in the front of the property.  In the back, other than the wild flower areas, I've added a garden, a rock garden, and the beginnings of an orchard.
So, that's a brief image of Iten's Acres.  If you care to take my daily walk with me, than sign in on my new blogger from time to time.  And, of course, you're always welcome to drop by--if you can find it.