I have a challenge for you. What do you see from your Back Porch or Back Doorstep? This is what I can see from my back porch. Sitting on the step.
I can see:
The unDaily View (it looks a little different because I have another lens on, the 50mm).
Sophie’s Garden.
The orchard … well it will be an orchard when it is all growed up.
Not everything is pretty though miss c, says Queenie. You have to show them the view to the North too!
Thank you for that Queenie, I was just about to do that.
And no more sitting on me.
But Queenie, you are such a comfy rest when I am grubbing thistles in the field.
Well, I don’t like it.
But you never move.
That’s because I am too tired. And anyway you are putting on weight. So you pin me to the ground.
That’s a lie, Queenie Wineti.
Just sayin’. Now go ahead and show The Fellowship the other view from the back porch.
So here is your Challenge! Show us what can you see from your back porch or back door or balcony door or even front porch. I want to see what you see! Can you show me? If you have time you can take a shot from your back porch and put it on your blog pages and link it back to me so I can share the pictures with the Fellowship. We want to see real backyards, views from the balconies of apartments high in the sky, farmland stretching away , rubbish bins in a line, tiny city gardens, the allotment across the road, the neighbours brick wall, a garden heaving with growth, the beach, a park across the road, a telegraph pole. Tons of Views from the Back Porch from all over the World. From your Point of View. The mundane and the beautiful because they are the same you know. What do you think?! I would love to see what you see when you sit on the doorstep outside your door and think about nothing.
Whether you have just joined, or are one of the Oldies, or have never commented, or always comment.. go for it! Show us what you see.
I know that there are plenty of readers in The Fellowship of the Farmy without blogs to link from/to but I bet you would like to join in too, so you just go ahead and send me your shots by email! Most of you have the address already I think. I will pop them on my pages for you so you can play too!
Good morning, now for another view, the front of the Farm cottage with the Coupe adjoining, from the field. It changed a little yesterday and will change dramatically (fingers crossed) today.
Life is grand. Being alive is grand.
I do hope you pick up the challenge, I am looking forward to it!
your friend on the back porch step, celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
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Queenie Wineti would move if she really did not like the closeness. Am without camera at the moment, but will send someone else’s photo [may have done that already way back] via email: it is taken looking onto my ‘backyard’ from the park just behind! From my stoop look onto a lovely small fruitgarden and a row of Moreton Bay figs under which I have my luncheon table and chairs! My, the Daily View Has ‘blossomed’ with everything in leaf!!!
We would love to see your view! That would be wonderful! c
I love Queenie’s beautiful, wavy, curls! I would trade her in a minute for my stick straight no body hair! She would probably say…Oh, I can’t do a thing with this mop! 🙂 I’m also a complete muddle with links and things so I will try and e-mail a photo or two of our yard from the porch! I hope my wine glass doesn’t get in the way!! 🙂
a shot of the wine glass would work too!!! Can I say what state you are in?
Great challenge! I enjoy seeing what’s going on around your farm!
I hope this works…
http://www.ninehundredandseventytwelverecipes.wordpress.com/the-view-from-my-back-door/
Palmerston North, New Zealand in all its drizzly glory today.
A great challenge and I’ve enjoyed looking at those that have already responded. (I should be packing up the car.) I’ll take a look around when I get back home to see if I can come up with a good angle. My yard is so small an improperly angled shot could give someone claustrophobia.
Have a great week, Celi!
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Well darn, I just saw this post and we are leaving first thing in the morning for a five-day camping trip, so will have no time for this challenge. However, while we are gone I’ll take some pics of my back porch view from our RV property on the river! I’ll see if you still have the challenge going when we get back and could add also our home back porch(es) view, as we have two back porches at this house! Lovely idea though. I’ll be perusing the links so far, thanks!
What a womderful idea!
Well, the time difference is a bit against me as it’s dark now. But here is a link to yesterday’s post, where I show the boronia, the lemon grove and the melia tree, all of which I see from my front door/balcony. The back door opens off a stairwell so isn’t very photogenic (yes, I’m in an apartment block). Nice challenge Celi, thanks.
http://seasonalinspiration.blogspot.co.nz/2013/05/lermon-in-autumn.html
I don’t have the time to take and upload a photo right at the moment but I can describe it for you. We live in a hollow, on the north facing slope (the house faces the south so our garden all faces north). On the opposite hill are a couple of houses we can see but they’re not close enough to be invasive. From our deck I can see the trees over our westerly neighbours fence, the roof of the neighbours behind them and I can see their cows (they keep black and white poddy calves) and their Isa browns pecking around their wood pile. The easterly side is a stand of huge silver poplars, hawthorn brambles and a few huge pine trees. As the leaves are mostly gone I can see through them to our other neighbours across the creek – the town cemetery) but little is visible between the thick trees. I can survey most of my garden and see our chook shed and run which I built, the fence dividing it from the veggie garden, the raised corrugated iron veggie beds with their few specks of greenery popping through, the greenhouse with its hay green showing through and a heap of toys and bits of stuff scattered around everywhere too. One of the cats pegs across the lawn, assuming that it must be dinnertime. Hello Maxxie. Our chooks and ducks congregate at the corner of the chook pen closest to the back door. They too assume it’s dinnertime or at least snack time. With dusk closing in on these last few days of Autumn, (I’m in Victoria Australia) the cockatoos know it’s bedtime too and start up their nightly song and dance. They cry out in their raucous squawks to the darkening sky, their belief in the unfairness of needing to go to bed so early. They screamed their frustrations even louder in the summer. Bedtime is not welcomed by the sulphur crested cockies, galahs and corellas.
We only moved here in mid December so things are still coming together but already I look outside and just love what I see. It never ceases to make me smile.
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Morning from sunny Bristol Cecliia and I have been out in my pjs and taken two pictures for your challenge – and put them up here http://wp.me/pSFVI-2Si – all yours if you want them x Joanna
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