It's Autumn On The Farm

I went out to do the chores one morning and found this porcupine walking around the yard. It appeared to be limping and possibly hurt, though it was hard to tell because porcupines always walk funny. I got its photo and tried to shoo it off the property, but it just went up into the top of a thick bush. I left it alone and by evening, it was gone:

The New England Asters are blooming everywhere, albeit smaller than some years because there hasn't been much rain:

The fantail pigeons are happy, healthy and enjoying life:

One day my cows were mooing loudly, looking across the road, and I investigated. The neighbors had a new, borrowed, bull, a handsome gray fellow who was showing off to my cows. My girls were certainly impressed, but only for a day. By the next day they were ignoring him:

When I walked across the road to take the photo of the bull, I also took this picture of their pasture and barn. What a lovely scene on a beautiful autumn day:

I walked to the side of their pasture and got this autumn scene - A cornfield turning yellow and New England Asters:

One year the owner of the abutting field harvested great quantities of corn kernels from it and I suspect he will do so again this year. Last time, the workers spilled huge quantities of kernels which brought the geese into the field. The only problem was that all that shelled corn tempted my chickens to go into the road:

Another look at the neighbors' farm and the abutting corn field:

I walked back across the road to my own house, where the dogs were waiting anxiously for me:

I snapped one photo of this year's abundant and colorful crop of rose hips before I put my camera away: