Opening my email I saw this fun message–
” Crazy weather on the way home this eve. Was gobsmacked to turn into the estate and find a rainbow landing on our house!”
Linda Brown, my Rainbow Lady – isn’t this just beautiful?
What a cool rainbow!!! Thank you so much, Erynne!
Thank you for letting me share it with all my readers!
Love,
Linda
Off and on all the day of Friday we had thick, soft, wet clouds in the sky,
Then an opening between storms would gift us with prisms of beauty, so wonderful they seemed to breathe in the autumn air
Then the storms would come again puddling on the earth leaving behind a leaden stillness,
and a sullen sky
Then once more in stunning splendor the sun would break forth and brighten the gloom
The parted clouds lighting the world.
Then that evening as the sunset
Built within the sunset
A sundog appeared! I stood marveling as the amazing sky sang with echoes of humming songs in color for all to see.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
After that awful announcement of the Equifax Data Breach
I thought maybe I had better get my once a year credit reports.
Looking through them I saw in April 11, 15, 27, 29 2017 someone tried to open an account with Capital One!
Talk about scared!!!
I called LifeLock and reported this (I have LifeLock) and then called Capitol One
To make for a very long story, with lots of long, long minutes waiting on the phone line!
I’m happy to announce everything is okay today!
Now if there are those of you who wish to take Equifax up on their new offer…
The waits are terribly long, enough so your phone will actually click you off. And, you might not get through…I never did.
Anyway…moving forward,
Love,
Linda
“Only from the heart can you touch the sky”–Rumi
This is a song to summer, that time when music is all around us, bird songs, the growing of green things, butterfly wings, and hummingbirds humming in the crystal air
The deep excited feeling of lightness of walking on the earth with bare feet (and on the phone with a best friend 🙂 )
Gradually, over-time, the slow trickle of fall breaks into the movement of summer
Daily I give thanks for being able to follow this amazing dream
Of living, walking, working on the land, where the old gods still watch and wait.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
No longer does the repair of this tractor torment his mind and therefore his body
Finally the last necessary bolt was in place, the last hose hooked, the last screen cleaned….everything back to running order!
Worry, for this tractor, wisped away like a ghost on a windy day!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
While we slept, the dreams of summer vanished along with all the summer stars
The weeds had been warning us…turning their summer green to colors suited only for Fall
Then in the pink and purple blaze of morning sunrise
The sunlight striking on the ground revealed Jack Frost arrived last night!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The weather has turned…the long days of wonderful warm (even hot) weather is now gone. Fled to other parts unknown.
The brilliant days of summer blurred through wind and rain into
True days of Fall. The light is different now…
The colors more diffused, although sometimes shinning brilliant
As though the heavens are breathing…taking in summer letting out Autumn
Fall is not an empty time…it the accumulation of the spring and summer…some of the corn is being turned into silage, the onions are being pulled waiting for drying weather then sacked and sold,
And of course all the pinto beans are pulled and waiting for drying weather, so they, too, can be combined and sold.
The sky itself moves constantly sending us rainbows through the mists…
Sending me gifts of rainbows from others—our son-in-law captured one on his way to work
So far no frost! But cold days and even colder nights
Fall has arrived in all it’s amazing splendor!
From my world to your heart,
Linda
The days are warm and lovely with a small wind from off the Uncompahgre Plateau
I just make sure not to be on the side the trash drifts! 🙂
We blazed though one field the first afternoon,
Finished the second field yesterday
Then as the light brighten the sky, throwing shadows deep and blue across the earth we took the last load to the Beanery.
Two fields done! YIPPEE!!
Now we wait…one more field to go. But that won’t be until around the first of October. Fingers Crossed for sunny, drying weather!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
When the smoke was terrible here, (although not as terrible as other places) I took some photos of the sun and the moon.
The strange color
A testament to the disaster happening in prairies and forests in the west
The orange moon and the red-hot molten sun roaring like soft thunder in the sky!
From my world to your heart,
Linda
Together we went out to check the last field of pinto beans…are they ready to be pulled, is the dew just right, is it time?
We decided it was time.
Finished! All the pinto beans are pulled!
If the weather holds we will be combining the first two fields come Thursday!
This last field must have two weeks to dry.
Hopefully the rains stay away! Just for spell…just until the last load of pinto beans is at the Beanery! Hopefully!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
