| This is an aerial view of the Little H-Bar
Ranch, taken around 1990. The oak tree in the center of the pasture
has since fallen down. |
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Little H-Bar Ranch
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In the spring of 1999, we planted two Cecile Bruner climbing roses on an arbor we had built
around the front door. They have now grown up and covered the entire
arbor, and look and smell great! At the side of this picture, you can
also see some of the iceberg roses and the pink jasmine.
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Welcome!
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| This is the barn in Little H-Bar Ranch.
We have 8 stalls, a hay room and a tack room. Two of the stalls are
filled with hay and junk, but the other six are available for use
by the horses during the rainy season. Gizzy and Dragon, our two barn
cats, are often found up in the rafters over the tack room, meowing
loudly and hiding from Clancy, the ranch dog. |
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The Barn
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This is a picture of the vegetable garden taken in the summer
of 1999. Frequent ranch visitor and good friend J. Robert Dobbson
designed and built the garden, which is fortified from beneath
with gopher wire. Each year the tomato plants get larger due
to the terrific and inexhaustible supply of compost!
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The vegetable garden
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| This is Garrett's tractor. It comes in very
handy for piling up poop to make compost, mowing the fields, and tilling
the pastures. He also uses it to pull fence posts up, level the driveway
and carry around loads of rocks. |
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The tractor
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There are nasturtiums, lantana and sweet alyssum growing on the fence
outside the Vegetable Garden. Hummingbirds frequent these flowers,
as well as mockingbirds. |
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Flowers outside the vegetable garden
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| These flowers were planted by Amanda Kellett
in the spring of 1999. Some of them return each year. |
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Wild Flowers
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| These are a few of the rose bushes and fruit
trees growing along side the number one pasture. The roses include
Pascali, Mr. Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth and Stirling Silver. |
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Roses
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| This is the persimmon tree that grows next
to the number one pasture. In the fall, it produces loads of sweet
orange fruit, but not until after the leaves fall off. Then they look
like Christmas ornaments hanging off the bare branches. |
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The Persimmon Tree
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| Naked ladies are a type of lily that emerge
all at once, and don't have any leaves. |
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Naked Ladies
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