Whats for Supper?

After working outside, putting the lavender to bed

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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!

 

 

 

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Even the Praying Mantis has covered up for the winter.

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A Walk to Our Mail Box

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Along the way I saw….

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Big birds eating corn in the corn field, are they cranes? Are they Blue Herons?  They kept moving away from me, I wonder why?

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

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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!

 

 

 

 

 

What Fun a New Award!

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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

On the Way to the City

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We travel through a really neat prairie, full of interesting dunes and canyons.  I love the play of shadows across the land.

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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. 

 

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Then after all of that lonesome beauty we enter…..TRAFFIC!

 

I Deleted by Accident My Award

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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

 

 

 

Last Year’s Leaves

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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.

 

Happy Halloween

Work begins at dawn.  There are animals to feed, water to fill, wood to haul, stuff to get done BEFORE getting ready for the town job.

This is dawn (daylight savings time, October 31, 2008), right out our backdoor, just as we are heading out to do morning chores.

 

HALLOWEEN Came Early

Last night a cute group of goblins came to our house……

Bladen Fox McCormick as the Warrior

Linkin Mahre McCormick the Black Cat

Tallin Rose McCormick the Pink Cheetah