The Pic of the Month for September was taken by Scott, featuring our trusty John Deere 1025R subcompact tractor Wilson, helping move some lilies to be replanted in the front landscaping.

    "The charming landscape which I saw this morning is undubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men’s farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title." 

Emerson, from Nature

    "Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail." 

Thoreau, from Walden