I am late today!
Very late!…
LATE!
But I have a very good excuse. Terry and I had to be at the bottom of the pinto bean field picking up an extremely large branch broken from one of the Johnson cottonwood trees in the huge wind storm yesterday.
Shannon saw us and came out to help so the process went much faster than just the two of us.
Back home now. Terry is marking out the pinto bean ground so we can start water on that field. He will be planting pinto beans in about two to three weeks.
The wind left us last night just as the sun started setting—leaving the plants more than slightly leaning over
But the sun sat in a lovely sky all bright and golden, with a true sense of peace falling on the land.
And a hush on everything living.
Wind is so important this time of year; wind brings the sap up from the roots of all the plants and trees, melts the snow and dries the mud. But that huge massive wind (sometimes 40 m.p.h. gusts) tears upon everything and every one leaving a feeling of being ripped apart.
Then last night the pale wash of moonlight, and the glow of Venus next to the moon, lent a dream-like quality to the cold still air. Everyone and everything breathed deep allowing the stillness of the night of gather in and lend calmness to all.
The cold got down to 22*F –(-5c). I’m sure the pears have joined the apricots in being frozen for the year.
Still today is bright, tangy with spring, the intoxicating scent of ‘new’ floating over everything. Joy seems to be bursting forth in song and in my heart!
Well, off now to help Terry set water in the pinto bean field. But I wanted to make contact with you, before the day grew old.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
I hope your pears bear fruit, but it does sound doubtful. So sorry!
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I checked yesterday and the blooms are black. 😦
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That’s awful. Sometimes it’s hard to believe that we ever get a successful fruit crop.
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I know. Having grown up on a fruit orchard the heart ache and pain of losing a crop is horrible.
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I grew up in the desert, and I see every piece of ripe fruit to be a miracle!
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Of which I agree with you! 🙂
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Love your never-ending,adventures
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Or the non-stop work. Tee Hee
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So glad to hear that things are a bit calmer today! You two certainly keep busy. Thanks for letting us know all that goes on in your part of the world. Always so interesting. Hope your weather improves and things go better!!! Thanks Linda!
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Me too. I’m a READY! 🙂
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It’s hard to see the freeze take the fruit. It’s happening all to often anymore. Glad the wind died down.
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Another thing I see going is the asparagus…the wild asparagus is going away. And we don’t spray, so I don’t know why
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;(
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come to think about it … many (yes, sigh, many) years back people would go to certain parts of the G.V. and walk the irrigation ditch banks and harvest asparagus. our previous neighborhood (“downtown” Orchard Mesa) that used to happen…
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They still do that out here, but I am selfish and keep the yummy goodness all for myself and Terry.
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Some wind might be necessary, but these storms we have been suffering everywhere are not what anybody needs. I hope they will stop soon, and I hope your pear tree might still bear some fruit.
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These winds have been over the top, and they are saying this afternoon they are back. I hope the snow melts soon, once the snow is gone the winds stop or at least slow down.
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Wonderful white pear blossoms! If they let go in the wind, it’ll be as if it’s snowing…
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Yes. Poor things they frozen. So this year no pears or apricots — again. I hope my Lilac’s make it. I haven’t had a lilac bloom in years and years.
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It’s like us with mangos. The trees put out huge amounts of dusky pink flowers, and then we get a few cold day or a sea fog, and that’s it, they’re gone. Last year we were lucky and the weather cooperated…
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Yummy mangoes! I’m glad you were able to get some last year. Fruit is so fragile…isn’t it.
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Hope you have a beautiful day after al that wind. Maybe it brought some hummers in! 🙂
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I keep hoping. I have out a feeder thinking one or two might arrive.
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This wind is nuts! All wind & no rain. I’m sad about the apricots, a few years ago they we’re so prolific but I couldn’t can any that year-& we haven’t had a decent year since. I’m so glad I hadn’t yet planted anything in the garden before that terrible freeze earlier in the week. Maybe I’ll chance it next week. Today I’ll be going out to pick some wild asparagus & am crossing my fingers that I’ll get some!
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It’s supposed to get down low again tonight and then only get to 59* here tomorrow. BUT it is looking like we are then on an upswing to warm.
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We have had more than usual wind this spring as well. What crazy weather…
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What crazy wind! And it’s so wide spread!
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“Betty” (every year) says/thinks that THE WIND is worse than its ever been — and I gotta admit, these past few weeks have been RELENTLESS !
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They have. Terry and I were just talking that we don’t remember so MUCH hard, high winds all at once as we have had this spring.
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blowin’ now !
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Blowin in the wind here also! And much cooler.
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Gosh your wind is so important Linda …good luck with the pinto bean field
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Its so dry the water is having a hard time going through, but we will work it out.
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I can’t imagine having that problem thank heavens ..
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