The countryside around us

It is so beautiful here in the Lancaster / Lebanon / Hershey, Pennsylvania area.

As we were driving Miss Doozie in to the campgound last week, we enjoyed the scenery.

They don't show up well, but there are pretty purple flowers alongside the road. There are also places where there are beautiful day lilies growing in masses alongside the road.

What we have found interesting is how close the farm buildings are to the road - of course, the road has probably gotten wider since the buildings were originally built.

Dwayne and Miss Kitty at our campsite (before surgery!)

One of the farms very near our campground - the grain in the field looks like it has been crushed down in a lot of places. This picture was from last week; this week it looks like they are harvesting this grain in a lot of the fields around.

Another farm that is very near our campground. The corn here is at all different heights - this is about the tallest. Some is just a few inches high. As we passed some of the fields, I thought they might be tasseling because I saw something tan at the top - but they were dry leaves at the top.

This was a drive from Columbia back towards Lebanon - seeing how close the farm buildings are to the road.

Again, a view of how close the buildings are to the road.

 A video of the drive: https://youtu.be/AMcBuu8NRGA

A beautiful farm house

Looking across cropland

A video of the farms in this area:  https://youtu.be/kTpja_Zo560
Continuing video of the drive: https://youtu.be/zZLbkyr4QJA

Yesterday, when I cut through a road I hadn't been on previously, I noticed that they seemed to have chickens in a coop out in grass in a field. Jimmy had talked about doing something like this for their chickens, so I stopped to take pictures this morning, but the chickens weren't out in the coop yet.

A picture of the farm - the coop is behind the white fence - barely visible.

That's the coop - I think that the box type thing in the back may be where the chickens can go inside, and may be where they spent the night.

Another view of the coop in the field.