We were heading into town one day last week and came to the stop in the road which takes us to the bypass; thus on into town…
OOPS! Someone lost a huge straw bale.
Terry says straw is very slick and hard to stay stable on a load….I think this photo agrees with his statement! 🙂
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Around four o’clock yesterday afternoon a wind-fretted bundle of clouds blew in churning the air into a seething angry mess!
The little hummingbirds started feeding in a desperate and determined manner.
Suddenly the wind shifted moved west, then north, and finally east, where it slammed into our area with a vengeance untold
Dropping rain in torrent, flattening anything which stood in it’s path.
Then in swirl of angst the wind-fretted rain moved on…drenching everything in it’s path.
By evening the sun started disappearing; sending slivers of gold and silver among the slate colored clouds.
This morning is clear and bright, although very muddy! The smells of warming corn stalks and the heady scent of Four O’clocks fill the air. Along with the chirps and clicks and the buzz of many little wings as the hummers fill their tummies.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
We took a wee ride in the late evening air…
The crescent moon gliding through patches of simmering clouds —gradually gave way to clouds; gathered and darkened—- promising rain somewhere—either where we were driving or in the distance
Although, the clouds were gray and low; the drops of rain stayed off as we started back home.
Then the miracle appeared!
The sun shining between a slit in the clouds scattered in the west
A partial rainbow or a sundog (omen of cooler weather to arrive in three days). I wasn’t sure which one: sundog or rainbow…I did not care! To me it was beautiful!
Then the sun sank…
Turning the rain-filled western sky into a matching set of colors!
From my world to your heart!
Linda
Mom is such an old bore….whenever I go anywhere with her I have to STAY RIGHT BY MOM!!!
We finished weeding the second pinto bean field…and I had to STAY RIGHT BY HER!!!
We had to go clean up a big branch that broke at my sister, Shannon’s yard…and I had to stay “CLOSE BY”!!!
Romeo took a big escape and hoofed it over to our yard…Mom and I took him to the canal pasture, but I had to STAY WITH MOM!
If Mom and Dad walk somewhere I get to walk with them…
I can walk ahead or behind, but I have to walk where MOM CAN SEE ME!
You see there is Rabbit Fever on Grand Mesa—so Mom is afraid it might be down here. She says I’ve been too sick to get myself exposed to something awful again. She says fleas carry Rabbit Fever and all animals in the wild get fleas! (Rabbit fever: An infection in rabbits and other wild rodents caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis that can be transmitted to humans by contact with infected animal tissues or ticks. Also called tularemia.)
When my youngest sister and Linkin came to visit and they walked Shannon’s dog…Mom did NOT let me go with them!
Changing water I have to “SIT! Stay!” on the four-wheeler.
I think I have a
helicopter Mom!
Boomer, Mom’s Beaglie!
The last two days we enjoyed rain showers…sometimes the rain rode the sky in the morning
Or kissed the earth on a mid-night wind
At points the rain came in wild and untamed—
Cooling down the earth, so at one point we lived within a cloud
The moisture from the warm earth rising up to meet the cool air…fog –a most glorious and unusual gift in the high mountain desert!
Then yesterday the clouds all scuttered away on high wind, neither seen or felt here on on our little part of the earth
Walking among the flowers I could feel the Magic of the Old Ones
It’s still here, clinging to the earth…
Lifting us up for a heartbeat
(The Red Day-lily is a gift from Marianne )
In the shadows of ancient clouds.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
Terry came in from making waste ditches…(see the mud) announced that it’s so muddy he was having trouble.
Totally frustrated he called John Deer to order parts for his cultivator (which had broken down just before he finished this years cultivation)
Yes, they had them on stock.
“Okay! I be right there.” he hung up the phone, asked me if I wanted to run to Montrose…
Well, not at this time….Linky and I were waiting for her BFF to show-up so they could head out to http://www.lakepowell.com/rv-camping/bullfrog-rv-campground/ for the week.
“Alright, I think I need a vacation…everything is going wrong right now.”
“How about a little ride in the go-fast car?” I asked, with a smile on my face.
“Yes, Grandpa! That’s a vacation!” and young girl’s voice chimed in.
“Sounds good to me!” he replied.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
This year’s pinto bean field..almost weeded! Almost!
I don’t have much time left…the feelers are starting to grow shut!
That’s okay…I’m tired of weeding that huge field.
The ears are starting to form now…within each one is a tiny kernel of corn!
Summer…MY TIME!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm
Linda
Joe Cooper sent me a series of lightening photos he took with his IPhone and
Instructions on how to ‘capture lightning’ with your smartphone.
Hi Linda.
I use an iPhone, and this is what works for me.
Take a video of the thunderstorms, that way you’ll surely catch a good bolt of lightning at some point.
Then play that back on your phone. Pause it when you see a good bolt. There should be a scroll bar of your video at the bottom of your screen.
You can move that video forward and back frame by frame by touching the scrollbar of the video at the bottom. And while it is staying in pause mode, you might be able to find a good shot of a lightning bolt.
Once you have a good frame of what you would like for a picture, touch the screen again, but off to the side, so it does not come out of pause mode. This should remove the menus and show only the picture on the screen.
Then by pressing the home– then the power button — in quick, but not hurried fashion, it takes a screenshot picture.
After reading your post the other day I thought about it in relation to a thunderstorm that I had shot on video just a few days before. So I tried it, and it works.
The light at the bottom is the street light in front of our neighbors house.
This was a thunderhead of a storm at least 20 miles to the south of us, going like crazy. It was a clear sky above us. And there was not a sound coming from all the lightning!
Hope all is well, and good to hear Boomer is well.
Joe
Then in a couple of days he wrote:
“Staying downtown Chicago tonight, at friend of my wife’s. Caught this one.
Joe
How cool this all is! Thanks, Joe! Now those of us who have IPhones, can maybe get some good shots of lightening.
I think I’m going to try this on my regular camera to see if it might work the same way. One never knows!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm
Linda
The corn is starting to tassel out…
And baby ears of corn starting to form
The pinto beans are shooting feelers (last year’s photo–I lost this years somehow—I’ve been weeding the 16 acres early morning and late evening. Once the rows grow shut anything nasty growing out there—corn, cockleburs, ragweed, Pigweed, yellow sticker weed, scotch thistle….gets to grow. Not a good thing, but how it is.
My yard is doing
Great! The new railroad ties beds are softening up and looking ever so much better
The air smells lush and rich– full of sweetness
Summer — I can’t ask for anything more!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
I’m back at ‘em. (Although, Mom says I do sleep much more than I did before I got sick.)
It’s been hot so I rest lots.
Sammy hangs out with me also. Sometimes he rests where I’m resting, but lately he has taken to sleeping on one of the tractor seats in the coolness of the tractor shed.
I tell Mom I’m just conserving my energy for stuff—
LIKE—
CHASING IN THE FEDEX TRUCK!
But the other day, while Mom and Dad were gone somewhere, I decided it was time to check out the farm. I figured I wouldn’t go too far. I would stay close enough I could hear the family car coming down the long lane to house and be back in time.
I had a great fun out there…found out all sorts of news, things that were happening on the farm, you know stuff.
I made it home just before Mom and Dad got back.
Mom was not very happy with me…
Not that I checked out the news, or that I left the farm yard…but the fact I found
SOMETHING TO ROLL IN!!!
Sigh!
She gave me a bath…TWICE! TWICE! She took away all the wonderful perfume…dang it!
Boomer.
Life on a Colorado Farm 