I’ve been up since 4 in the morning, I just couldn’t sleep. I think I felt the earth shift last night.
The shift was very subtle…about 3 in the morning, actually. A tiny, tiny, tiny tilt back towards the sun, leaving this colder place (in the scheme of things) until sometime next winter.
The shift was very subtle, still I woke with a start…it felt like something a little bit more was happening…a little more sunshine, a little more warmth…maybe I was dreaming, but it felt …well — Good!
I pulled all of the curtains, put wood on the fire and settled down to look to the east.
The sun started lighting the sky around 6:21 in the morning, with the sunrise happening at 6:48–it was cold…11* and the earth still crusted with snow. If I looked to the west I could see the cows and their calves making the trek from the corrals around Misty’s house and the other bunch of cows walking over the hill from the equipment area…a new day was beginning.
The sun will set tonight at 6:02 giving us 11 hours and 15 minutes of daylight (if my figures are right!
I didn’t even remember to get my camera. I just sat and enjoyed and became part of this minute shift.
These little Coots were having a great time at Confluence Park Sunday…someone has tossed them some ‘lunch’.
Thank you to everyone who commented and is sending Magic Thoughts for wet mountain snow in March…you are all the best!!
If it doesn’t snow we will just do with the hand we are given and make the best of it.
Hope really does spring eternal doesn’t it?
Thank each of you so much,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
I can feel us growing closer to the sun every day. It’s a good feeling.
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great photo of the coots! they’re so cute with their big wormy-looking feet!
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Good day Linda, today finds us yet again in the middle of another snowstorm. If you felt the tilt of the earth, then I heard it. Early this morning I was amazed to hear birds singing, the song of spring birds. Ever so slowly spring will find us. Have an enjoyable day, Julie.
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Maybe that full moon had some effect on that slide toward a hope of spring. Things like that make it worth an early wake-up. COLD here. almost zero this morning.
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Well—we are definitely praying for wet mountain snow for your area… We love the Colorado Sweet Corn in Summer and I’ll be sad if we can’t get any this year…
Hopefully, the seasons will ‘shift’ –and it will begin to warm up soon.. That will make everyone feel better I’m sure. Winter can be SO long…. I love winter –but then again, I also yearn for spring.
Cute picture of the ducks.
Hugs,
Betsy
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You’re so in touch with the land, I quite believe that you felt that shift!
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Great to hear that you feel things have turned around. I think most of the time it’s our attitude that controls everything. There’s nothing like sitting up watching a sunrise!
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What a lovely post LInda – to be so in tune with the earth is beautiful… I’m still praying for rain, both sides of the ocean!!!!
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The sun was warm today! Yes it stays darker later and we are on the countdown to daylight saving time too..we rise at 7:03 and set at 6:02 That is eleven hours and one minute..I am thrilled:)
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Indeed we must always have hope and we will all deal with what the good Lord/Universe gives us for weather and life.
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