Christmas help

On Saturday, December 9, I did one of my traditional weekends of helping my father with the Christmas tree farm. He gets busy with customers and so I help out by greeting customers, answering questions, taking money and generally being there.
My dad
Nice hat
Spooky lens reflection
Note the lack of SNOW! (That changes with photo's down further)
Driveway to the farm house
the farm house
Tractoring over to the fields where the trees are sold.
My dad unloading wood.

My version of helping involves photographing his working

Pop bringing some branchs to the burn barrel.

He is puzzled over why I would be photographing him. My subjects often react this way.

The burn barrel. The evergreens make lots of smoke.
cute sign
more signs
Pop turns this sign over (180 degrees) when he shows up to open the field.

The word "open" is written in very small letters above the upside down "closed." I just thought that was pretty amusing.

This is Sunday morning, early!! Like 7:30am or something - way earlier than my normal 10:00am Sunday up time.
Notice the snow!! It snowed last night.
Here's where the paved road ends. Here on out it is an unplowed unpaved road. We still have about 1 mile to go.
We stop at the first big hill. We are checking to see if is safe to drive down the hill. (can get slippery)
Pop is slipping and sliding around
He decide's its safe enough, so back to get the truck
Quite a difference from yesterday...

The burn barrel is still warm, you can see there is no snow around it.

A self-portrait!
an overcast morning
Later in the day, the sun comes out.
I am taking some shots...
... as I walk from ...
... the Christmas tree field...
... and towards ...
... the farm house ...
... fields east of the house...
... also east but close to the house...
A shot taken with my back at the house, looking towards the Christmas tree field (visible through the line of trees)
The sun is melting the snow like crazy.

In this shot you can just make out the snow coming off the house and the trees.

more coming off the tree.

Is is coming down fast and makeing a lot of noise... like a light rain almost

Back to the fields
closer...
following my own tracks
The Master Chef sets out to cook camp cuisine.
Camp grub... grilling sandwiches over the burn barrel and potato chips
Having some time on my hands after lunch, I created a forever smiling greeter! Sweet!!