How does her garden grow...?

I managed to get one white rose that looks nice, thanks to my dad for giving me a DSLR for my birthday!
I was told these are a hardy wild rose whose roots overtook the pretty delicate rose that was grafted on top. I like these tough red ones, they need less water and are harder to kill.
This is a bit of our pond with the bench we sit on to get eaten by deerflies and mosquitoes in the summer. It's beautiful in early spring when it's cold enough at night to keep the bugs at bay.
This is Scout, the newest resident at our place. He is a 13 year old Paint, and was shipped from California last week. The van transporting him got here at 2am to drop him off, so that was an exciting night. He is a friend's horse that will be boarded here. He's not really part of the garden growing, but he is doing some weed control in our arena.

More wildlife

We had a great blue heron in our pond when I went to turn the horses out to pasture this afternoon. I got the camera and got this picture as it was taking off to head for the neighbor's pond (where there are no humans with cameras).

A little to the left....

Cecil's favorite place to be groomed is on his forehead, around his forelock. He actually closes his eyes and leans into it, sometimes he turns his head upside down for just the right scratch. Owen got this picture of him enjoying his evening grooming.

She thinks my tractor's sexy!

Well, we finally bought a tractor. We've needed one for a while. Now, we can drag the arena (it loosens the dirt so there is softer footing). We still need to get a mower attachment so we can keep the pastures trimmed and cut down on the time it takes for me to mow the lawn.

I tried to get Kim to take a picture of me on the tractor with her looking hungrily at me - but she wouldn't do it. She just looked at me and said "Like that's going to happen". Oh well, I think it would have been pretty funny. So, without further ado, here are the pictures.