WEEK 25 – ODDBALL PHOTOS ARE BACK!

CEE’S ODDBALL PHOTO CHALLENGE WEEK 25

This was a good week for oddball photographs. Lots of pictures that have no reason to exist except I just saw something and tried to capture it.

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Successful pound cake with copper kettle

My pound cakes came out well. Baking them was something of an accomplishment since I can’t remember the last time I made one. But Garry wanted pound cake. He said he would just go buy one. I said if he’d never had homemade pound cake, he’d never had pound cake at all. Now, I think he would agree.

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Collecting ingredients for the pound cakes triggered a trip to the farm around the corner to get fresh eggs. You need nine eggs for this recipe (some call for as many as a dozen) and I thought I’d like to use the best possible ingredients.

Eggs fresh from the hen

Eggs fresh from the hen

And while we were there, I bought some milk. Their milk is nothing like grocery store milk. It’s as thick with cream as half and half and you have to shake it to keep from skimming it.

Cows chatting in the pasture

Cows chatting in the pasture

Maybe it’s so good because these have to be the happiest cows in the world. They ooze contentment.



Categories: #animals, #Food, #Photography, Blackstone Valley, Challenges, Summer

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20 replies

  1. The pound cakes look so yummy I wish for a slice. I love cows (my kids make fun of me for that) and yours are good looking. Barns, especially red, are among my favorite American buildings. So this is a good post for me. Thank you, Marilyn.

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  2. Great pix… There’s nothing like THE REAL STUFF! 🙂

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  3. These are great photos Marilyn. I’m not sure which one I like best. Perhaps your first one. YUMMY!

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    • It did come out tasty. I’m defrosting the second one now. I don’t know why I thought the cake would last longer, but it disappeared in a flash. Glad I took a picture so I have proof they existed!

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  4. Nice photographs. Cake looks yummy. Cows really look as if chatting.

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  5. Love the photo of the barn! Reading your post made me hungry.

    janet

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  6. Content Cows, and where’s the photo of a content Garry after eating that fabulous poundcake? 🙂

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  7. Oh, to have a little farm like that just around the bend! I get the farm-fresh eggs from Mom, but the fresh milk…I’m salivating now. And pound cake…one of my favorites. Garry will probably never buy store-made pound cake again (and shouldn’t!). 😀

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    • It’s nice. We have three or four farms in a tight radius. One of the last agrarian areas in relatively easy driving distance of Boston. Okay, a long driving distance — about 65 miles, give or take a few — but doable. It was even better when we were working and came home from the city to farmland.

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    • Rose, you are right. Never again with store made pound cake. Never again.

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  8. Reblogged this on BLOGTENDI.

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