Sometimes I Struggle with Feelings of Dread —- Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Posted on June 10, 2020 by Dayphoto

I don’t know why I struggle with dread/ or the feeling of impending doom

I really don’t know why.

I even looked it up on the internet and found out that elderly people do struggle with feelings of despair.

Maybe it’s a subtle worry about aging and the future

Or the fact, as a septuagenarian death is looming ever closer,

(Photo by our daughter, Shannon)

Not arriving quickly, but not slowly either

(Photo by our daughter, Shannon)

So I am always rather amazed

Not stunned with amazement

But pleasantly surprised

When I look to the heavens and find residing there gently

Are diamonds….adorning the ether and my eyes—taking away the cheap feeling of impending ruin

All I have to do is Look

There within the white clouds, riding high above the breeze is that ancient symbol of hope, a promise of blessings, and the belief life is truly made up of roses and laugher.

All I have to do is look; give Thanks for what is to come,

All will be what it is supposed to be —- and that, in and of itself is Good.

From my heart to your world,

Linda

The Lure of Quietness —- Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Dayphoto

Sometimes, Terry and I

Get just plain

Tired.

The constant,

constantness of keeping the farm up and running

Keeping the yard

In tip-top shape,

Tells us…it’s time to go live a wee bit of a dream

To feel the wind blowing through our hair and the sun-drenching the car

We come home, feeling new-born, rested.

Like the earth after a rainstorm.

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

As Evening Descended —- Monday, June 8, 2020

Posted on June 8, 2020 by Dayphoto

Up there in the soft rippling air

June’s Full Moon

Played chase with silver light and storm-ladened clouds.

On my computer, I opened an email from Kate to see

A lovely rainbow in a rain-soddened sky.

Blessing abound for me and now for you!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

Gosh…Time Goes SO Fast—–Sunday, June 7, 2020

Posted on June 7, 2020 by Dayphoto

Our Blade…

graduated.

My, has time flown? I don’t know if I was ready for all this.

But I know he is excited and ready to become!

Also, David, Blade’s very best friend,

And our ‘other’ grandson

Joined, with Blade, on that new adventure of being young adults.

It makes me want to cry and laugh and clap and weep and ….well, you understand.

From my heart to your world,

Linda

As the Stars Wheel Through the Heavens —- Thursday, May 4, 2020

Posted on June 4, 2020 by Dayphoto

And the moon grows from fat, to thin, then to nothing, and back again to fat

The sun —- our sun–that amazing orb lights up the sky.

The sun’s light thrusts itself upon the earth

Wrapping it’s light/rays/heat all around us

A loving and caring gift providing life.

Always, always speaking to the heart of every living thing upon the earth

Sending showers of sun rays through all the clouds

Taking away feelings of despair and melancholy

Shimmering in the sky

While the seasons turn,

A gift only the sun can give,

After chasing away the moon

The stars

And those fading worrisome dreams

and horrid thoughtsafter long sleepless nights.

Thank Heaven and the God(s) above for the sun and a new day!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

Sometimes You Just Gotta Do Something Different— Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Dayphoto

We went with our daughter and son-in-law to where Cliff and his family have very long ties

Up, up we traveled way up into the Paonia Mountain Range (the Elk Mountain Range) —-(Boomer didn’t get to go)

The road was a steep and marvelous wonder

The views amazing

and stunning (somewhere over there is Crested Butte)

At, one point along the trail, we looked down upon the West Elk Mine

Climbing higher and higher and higher

Until we drove into a lovely meadow, where we had lunch.

It was here Cliff showed us the marker commemorating his late Dad. Many generations of Rezak’s loving, and hunting, and living on this spot.

Then on we rode

All the while through

(This is Ragged Mountain)

extraordinary beauty

Marvelous lush meadows

Delightfully full ponds

Impressive vistas.

At one point we came upon a man-made object—a radio tower! Always a surprise to me, to see something like this in a prestine forest

We drove to snowbanks and through snowbanks

In lots of muddy melting water

In the thickly growing forests of the Standing People

Then down, down, down again, where we could get off and look back and see just where we had been.

It was a lovely day, and much needed as a wee break in work.

Back home again, standing at the edge of our field…I took a photo of the Elk Mountain Range…which I call the Paonia Mountains…

as a reminder of where we were and the beauty we just experienced.

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

In the Quiet of the Day —- Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Posted on June 2, 2020 by Dayphoto

The Gloss of the blooms

Send out warm enticing scents

To gift the nose

The eye

And the little pollinators

By evening

The warmed up (to almost broiling air)

Sends fragrant wafts of scents

Throughout the opened windows

On the gentle night breeze.

From my world to your heart,

Linda

Walking in a Fairy Tale World —- Monday, June 1, 2020

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Dayphoto

The heat has been like a hammer the last several days…

Still, the evening’s have been soft and lovely

But what has been the best thing

Right out our back door

Covering our whole farm…

A PERFECT double Rainbow!

WOW!

From my world to your heart,

Linda

One Field Down, One to Go—-Sunday, May 31, 2020

Posted on May 31, 2020 by Dayphoto

We finished up!

Nice green leafy, baled in the dew hay.

A nice feeling.

One field down, one more to go.

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

Snapping Photos of Earth’s Flying Jewels — Thursday, May 28, 2020

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Dayphoto

A little Black-Chinned Hummingbird kept flitting from wire to fence as I walked down the long, long farm lane

I found watching it a huge delight…like he was playing with me

Here I an here—see…then he would lift up and flit to the next section of the fence.

Sometimes my finger on the camera button is a tad too slow…what was a beautiful bird is now only tail feathers in the lens. 🙂

Who do I help the hawk for lunch or the unsuspecting dinner?

Sometimes I don’t really know what to do. So I turned away. I didn’t want to know how things turned out. That instant where something is one thing, then suddenly something else…I just don’t like knowing about it.