About Dayphoto

My name is Linda Brown. I live on a farm on the western slope of Colorado, in the high mountain desert. I’ve lived here all my life, hailing back four generations on my father’s side. Today I blog about our farm, the everyday activities that keep the farm going. I also write about my thoughts and dreams and goals. On Friday’s I always write about TLC Cai-Cai. Our sweet kitty who helps keep the farm safe. And Boo Berry Betty, a breeder dog learning to be a Farm Dog! The lovely thing about blogging it opens the world up for all of us to reach out and meet people from many different cultures and different ways of life. You can find me every day (but Saturday) at https://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com/ Your Friend on a Western Colorado Farm, Linda Brown

We Live in the Middle of a Corn Field

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Dayphoto

This year, (because we do rotational planting —-meaning all crops are rotated from one field to the next keeping disease and bug problems down as much as possible) the corn all happened to be planted around the house and the buildings.

The heat inside of a corn field is hot and humid, corn just loves a hot day, add in the water to keep the corn growing and you have a huge humidifier!

Breezes don’t make it inside this box of heat and moisture unless we have a wind…I relish wind now…

On the flip side I love smelling the corn, so rich and full and alive. Sounds carry from far away so it seems the train (6 miles away) is right down the field. The dogs can’t figure out if they should bark or not. They mostly don’t unless someone is right at the yard, so the nighttime dog phone has rather stopped.

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And we get an up close and personal daily report on how the corn is doing, just be looking out the window or working in the yard.

Harvest for sweet corn is on….you should be seeing Olathe Sweet Sweet Corn or Mountain Sweet Sweet Corn in your market soon. If you do just know that the corn was grown somewhere near our farm!

(No we don’t grow sweet corn, we grow corn that used for feed or to be made into corn meal. Our season of growing lasts much longer than sweet corn.)

Linda

July 23, 2012

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Dayphoto

Last weekend was Delta’s annual celebration—Deltarado Days. It was also Terry’s 50th class reunion

After the parade in the morning was the

170% of the tractor’s weight! That little 530 John Deere weighs 5,300 pounds.

It was so miserably hot it was hard to enjoy this event. Although, I had an umbrella it still felt like a cooked hot dog when we finally left.

Linda

Sunday Stills — In the Air

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Dayphoto

I just had to share these wonderful photo from blog friends…they really are in the air, just not taken by me!

The first is from John and Cindy North….I do not think I have ever seen

Four rainbows at ONCE!

How amazingly cool is that!

Then Sara from Kentucky sent me THIS

A cool rainbow spanning one whole side of her farm!

Then Tom sent me over a photo a friend of his took here in Colorado. They live in Steamboat Springs, and are great friends of Tom. Tom as since moved to the lower part of our state. Tom’s friend Erin is took this with her cell phone.

A double rainbow spanning the complete mountain town of Steamboat Springs.

Thank you everyone for these wonderful and amazing rainbows!

No one can have enough rainbows in their lives!

For more Sunday Stills go here!

Linda

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — Mom in Charge

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Dayphoto

Dad had a meeting to go to last night so it was just Mom, Fuzzy, and myself…oh yes, and Hank. Hank came along since he was spending some time with us while his folks went on vacation.

It was an amazing evening.

Lots of clouds had come in with lightning storms (complete with thunder) running around on the Uncompahgre Plateau and in the canyons next to us. Mom said she really enjoyed being out there with all the majesty of the heavens.

Fuzzy said he didn’t like the thunder so he stayed really close to Mom the WHOLE time.

I only searched for news a little bit….well, because Hank was with us

and I didn’t really want him to get to do something

that I didn’t get to do so I hung around pretty close.

The beans are setting pods, and vining out, and in general looking really good. Mom says we are half way through summer now when the beans vine out.

We had to drive through the grass (well, Hank and I ran through the grass) and it was WAAAAAAAAAAAy over my head and Hank’s head and even MOM’s head! Mom said we really need cows, but that isn’t going to happen.

On we went, moving from the head gate to one field then to the other field.

We saw some cool tracks on the ditch bank….is it a big cat?!?!?!

Or a bear!?!?!?

Mom said she didn’t want to meet it out here in the dark of the night whatever it is.

Mom also said she hoped it was just passing on through and wouldn’t be back.

We sometimes see tracks like this, but so far….we never seen who makes them.

The sunset was rather cool….there was a break in the clouds causing a red wave of light to spread all over the farm, even the corn turned red.

AND SO DID I!

Have a great week everyone!

Boomer

In My Spare Time

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Dayphoto

In my spare time I go help our oldest daughter with her volunteer job. We walk the dogs at the City Pound/CAWS.

We go Tuesday and Friday, it takes some time. That’s okay. We enjoy the dogs and they enjoy us. We walk them to the dog park and then let them run and run and run!

So much fun!

If you would like a wonderful dog…these dogs are perfect. They are all house broke, past the puppy stage and socialized.

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Of course there are other dogs there than just these three — I just wanted to give you an idea of great dogs for a small price.

Linda

A Sign of Hope

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Dayphoto

This has been a year of lots of ‘stuff ‘…

Stuff we have had to deal with…the fire, the fences, lack of rain, way too hot, not enough irrigation water, loved ones passing on over to the other side…you know all those things that make up every day living, but also sort of wear you down.

But last evening…across the pinto bean field and the corn field right over our house

This rainbow appeared.

We were not home at the time, but our son-in-law happened to see this sign from the Heavens

And emailed it over to us!

I am delighted!

It spans our farm from the middle to the end—-an amazing gift of

HOPE!

Linda

Sunday Stills — Pick Two Previous Challenges

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Dayphoto

My first challenge pick was trucks…

I was really lucky. While we were having Fuzzy’s birthday party at the lake this came by

Delta has never had an ice cream truck until this year.

And for my second challenge, this one

I love the reflection on the water!

Have a nice Sunday, everyone!

Linda

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — Happy Birthday to Fuzzy

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Dayphoto

I’m now 12 (twelve) that 72 years old in dog years! But let me tell you…I’m a very active 12 year old….I do all sorts of stuff…irrigate, herd the chickens when Mom tells me too, bark the mailman down the lane, bark the hay customers clear to the hay yard, bark at the birds as the swoop around catching bugs…I have lots of jobs and I do all of them well!!!

Yes, I take naps, and yes I like to sleep, but it’s so very hot everybody likes to sleep, not just me!! Huff! Huff!

Since I turned twelve my Mom decided that I needed a Birthday Party…Misty and Shannon said it needed to be at the lake because I LOVE WATER!!!!

So last evening, when the broiling sun had been covered up with the clouds, around 4 o’clock, off we all went to the lake.

What wonderful time I had!!!

What a great time everyone else had.

Except Boomer!

Boomer doesn’t like water, he can swim, but he prefers to not get his feet wet if he can help it.

He says he would rather gather news than get in the water where everything smells WET!

But Mom-mom made him go in…he tolerated it.

There was this rock in the water Boomer wanted to stand on so his feet wouldn’t get wet, I don’t see how much good that would do, his feet might be dry, but he was still surrounded by water.

Anyway, I had a great time! No, heck! I HAD A WONDERFUL TIME!

Happy Birthday to me!

Fuzzy

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Dayphoto

We are having 20% chance of rain right now…which is rather nice actually. It isn’t raining here (right here on the farm), but it is raining around us in the mountains. We get to watch the clouds play across the sky then settle down on one of the hillsides and let down a little thirst quenching shower. What it brings to us is the cooling of the day…we’ve been hitting anywhere from 90* to 100*.

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I have been looking for rainbows, but there aren’t many yet. I keep looking; they are bound to appear since there IS rain around.

Linda

California Poppies in Colorado

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Dayphoto

I have a wonderful blog friend from California. She is a farmer, lives on the family farm that’s been in the family for years and years, just retired from the field of education, shows birds—chickens, pigeons, and is just plain delightful.

She has been reading me and I have been reading her for some time now. So when the day from H@## arrived and then the very next day we had a repeat of day one…she decided that Terry and I needed some hope.

A few days later a large bundle of asparagus (straight from her farm) and a huge bag of California Poppy seeds arrived in the mail.

I immediately took the seeds out to the burn area and sprinkled them around, patting them into the soil, and prayed for rain. Sadly those seeds didn’t make it.

But… fearing that those little seeds might not make it…I planted some of the seeds in my yard.