They tell us a winter storm is coming in. With temperatures dropping to single digits.
It must be so. The last of yesterdays sunlight caught like cobwebs in the corn. The sky gradually filling with clouds from the west. Our storms always come from the west.
As the clouds thickened and gathered the sunlight
Splashed golden and yellow across our land.
This morning we woke up to a fully covered sky, full of thick clouds, which bespeak of snow.
Winter lays heavy on the land.
With much love, from a desperate to harvest but can’t, western Colorado farm,
Linda
OH! P.S. The header is a photo of a double sundog, sent to me from our daughter and son-in-law in Grand Junction. It’s stunning, don’t you think?
Life on a Colorado Farm 
On my screen it looks like your snow is coming in from the east haha :-D.
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Stay warm xo
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We are also having rain clouds moving in with snow in the mountains. Hurray
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YAY FOR YOU!!!
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My comments are not going througjh
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Will the corn survive the storm to be harvested another day? It’s very hard to sit and wait for disaster to take its own sweet time to arrive. Bit like waiting for the cyclone heading your way…
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It’s starting to look very ragged, wind can now knock it over, and over course the deer are making a mess. We really need to harvest!!!
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Can you still harvest after it lodges? Our cane harvesters are designed to lift up lodged cane, but they’re just cutting it off above the root and then chopping it into billets, rather than stripping off ears.
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We can harvest only after it gets dry enough, otherwise it corn will mold and rot in the granaries. We do have drying floors but we only have two small granaries and they would NOT hold the amount we have to harvest. Sigh.
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I would like to order just a couple more weeks of nice weather, please!
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YES! I so agree!
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The “Weather Gods” are certainly not co-operating with this 2015
corn harvest. I suppose that the corn “D-day” is fast approaching?
Off it comes or a case of extra food for the agisted cows coming for
their calving or the very lucky deer population.
It is a bloody hard life for farmers of crops whose living depends on
weather co-operation.
Good luck
Colin
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We wish the harvest day would approach. It’s starting to act like we might not be harvesting until January, which would be horrid to say the least.
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Linda maybe there will be a hole in the clouds and you will not get any snow. we had bad ice thanksgiving weekend. The corn here is done and most of the cotton Can you cut if no snow? Beautiful pictures. Sharon Drake south central kansas
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The corn just isn’t drying down. That is the whole problem. But we are close 15.7, but still too wet.
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Beautiful sundogs. Hope you can harvest before Christmas…the weather is really weird this December. 😦
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We had this happen two years ago. Makes Terry say he is DONE farming even more.
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I do pray you can get your corn harvested…we got a bit of wither here last night 4/10’s of an inch or rain and a couple inches for wet snow….it warmed up enough to melt it all.
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So sorry you can’t get at your corn. What a shame. City folks have no idea what the weather does to farmers. Your photos are spectacular. You just keep getting better and better!
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Oh, Thank you, Marianne! It is sure a worry.
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Beautiful images and words Linda .. Oh I do so hope you can harvest .. Soon
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Me too. We will try again next week sometime. Thanks, Julie.
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pretty scenes. good luck!
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Snowing…the wind bringing it in was the worst.
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It’s a beautiful gold colour! Still no harvest? That is bad. For everyone.
We had surprise snow overnight, just enough to almost cover the grass. It will be gone on the morrow, I expect – rain predicted.
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If the weather will break and hold in a drying pattern we MAY get to begin. But for now it’s looking like around Christmas before we can. 😦
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as you know, we ain’t farmers, and can only sympathize ~ we had to “get our dogs out” (as they’ve been in all week) so we drove to where Land’s End is blocked-off, hoisted our bikes over the gate, and rode up the snow-covered pavement a couple miles. it was mostly fun, except for the laundry (& dog brushing) afterwards !
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