First full day in Treasure Valley

While the ladies went shopping for the day, Clarence and I toured the valley area here because I wanted to learn and see more of the area. We drove the back roads for over two hours to see all the land that he had farmed, places lived, and the current crops that are producing. Of course we all know of the potatoes (spuds out here) from Idaho, but I was amazed at the variety of other produce/crops: onions, beets, turnips, mint, corn, wheat, alfalfa, peaches, apples, plums, hops, black beans, pinto beans, carrot seeds, onion seeds, seed corn……………..pretty cool, not to mention the horse farms, dairy farms, etc. And a most unusual and surprising sighting we stumbled upon in the corner of a cornfield – two very attractive and photogenic peacocks! Also a very active population of hawks that patrol the fields for the abundance of prey that seem to be flushed from their hiding places by the harvesting machinery.