I have no desire to move mountains, construct monuments, or leave behind in my wake material evidence of my existence. But in the final recollection, if the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart…then in living—I have made my mark.
…Thomas L. Odem, Jr.
We raise corn for feed, feed for animals. Terry has been waiting for the right level of moisture to occur in kernels, and we are THERE! Yeah!
Of course there are bigger farmers out there, and farmers who have newer equipment (Terry says he loves rust), but ours works for us.
To me this harvest is always about harvesting gold.
After working outside, putting the lavender to bed
Raking leaves, and cleaning up the weeds, it’s nice to come in to a large pot of Brown’s Pinto Beans. Chili on a chilly day. Yummm!
Even the Praying Mantis has covered up for the winter.
Along the way I saw….
Big birds eating corn in the corn field, are they cranes? Are they Blue Herons? They kept moving away from me, I wonder why?
The sun shinning through the clouds on Eckert and Cedaredge -these are little towns at the base of Grand Mesa, the largest flat top mountain in America.
And a group of cattails which took up living quarters on the canal bank.
This is not a long walk, as some of you have, but it does give you an idea of where we live. Thanks for visiting!
Marie – The Tile Lady http://daughterm.blogspot.com/ gave me this really neat award. I’m to pass it on to three others, so I choose….
http://prairieprologue.blogspot.com/
http://haffnewie.wordpress.com/
http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/
Go visit these neat sites. Read even the sidebars, fun wonderful places to visit on a daily basis.
Linda
We travel through a really neat prairie, full of interesting dunes and canyons. I love the play of shadows across the land.
As a child I was always fascinated by this huge plateau called Wild Horse Mesa. Even today I love driving by it. There are NO wild horses! Besides it doesn’t look like it could support life.
Then after all of that lonesome beauty we enter…..TRAFFIC!
I didn’t mean to delete my award! Shoot! I was trying to figure out how to fix it; therefore I lost everything I had printed on the post.
Boy am I sorry!
Linda
The storm hit our area yesterday, bringing a strong wind with sleet and rain. Our trees were still hanging onto thier summer leaves, but today, the leaves are all on the ground.
Although this looks like lots of bugs, it is really leaves being pushed off the trees.
