Sent to me at Christmas time!!! 🙂
This was taken at a park/forest preserve property where I will go to relax and watch trains go by.
Below is a rail car that went by this morning, which was rather interesting:
WOW! Thank you so much!
That is an amazing Sundog. We don’t get beauties like that here.
The train car is fun—so many talented people out there!
May 2023 be a wonderful year for you and your family!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
This is my birth month.
Mom doesn’t know the exact day
And neither do I.
We just know that the vet said I was probably born
Around the first of the month of January,
Give or take.
So Mom always says HAPPY BIRTHDAY on the First Friday of the Month of January.
That works for me!
And for Mom.
So here I am TWO YEARS OLD
And King of the family!
(Don’t I look like a king? 😊 )
Beautiful, wonderful, Darling, Mom always says to me!
TLC Cai-Cai
There really isn’t anything else
You can’t do anything about yesterday,
Or tomorrow! Just Today!
The best thing to do [then] is ENJOY today!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
At the end of the year, it is natural to look back
To search out those things we did well,
or those things we wish we could do over
Then we start to look forward—
As it is only natural to do.
For you in 2023— I wish for you:
The immensity of love from the Heavens
And the amplified love, from those of us who love you,
Will wash over you this coming year
So that each one of you is doubly blessed!
That is my hope, my prayer, and my wishes for you!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
They are there
Visibly Invisible
The Natural world, that is
Beautifully there! Right THERE!
An immensity of charming, awe-inspiring, astonishing, joy everywhere.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Yesterday was my Daddy’s birthday. He was born on January 1, 2026
The January he was ten, his father passed away from pneumonia.
It was a horrible– bitter– melancholy time.
His mother, Francis, re-married Charles Holder. I always knew her as Grandma Holder, although, our last name was Doyle.
By the time Daddy turned 16, the world was in a huge conflict, called WWII.
Just as Daddy turned seventeen Grandma signed so Daddy could ‘go to the Navy’
Of course, there are lots of pieces of Daddy’s story I am skipping. You do understand.
Here I am on my second Christmas —Momma, Me, and Daddy
Then by the time I was three along came Danny.
Daddy! Sometimes it feels like your shadow is close to me. Soaking into the earth and stones…touching my shoulders, putting your arm around me, filling the sky like a torch of light.
Yesterday you would have turned 97 if you were still in earthly form.
Instead, we lost you in 1999.
But still— sometimes, when I turn quickly or feel something brush my hair, I sense you are there.
Still a part of my life and my heart.
Love you, Daddy, always.
From my heart to your world,
Linda
Wishing the very best for each and every one of you!
Your friends on a western Colorado Farm,
Terry, Linda, TLC Cai-Cai, and Boo Berry Betty
(Oh, yes—and the hens 🙂 )
The year is going fast, faster, fastest now.
Each day is getting closer to the end
Then we will begin again.
What a year it has been!
“I got a new home,” Boo Berry Betty Brown
“I got a new sister,” TLC Cai-Cai
And Mom and Dad got to have TWO fur kids!
YAY!
Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai
We took off a few days… rest is a good thing.
But the wind, the cold, the random bits of moisture say: keep gathering. The heat feels good this time of year.
🙂
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
That God(s) is everywhere
And we can personally communicate our Thanks directly to his ear!
From my world to your heart,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 