We still have some green leaves hanging around here and there. I’ll look one day and they will all be on the ground. It will be sudden…no turning brown—just done! Dropped.
And, of course, there are all the leaves on the ground I need to clean up.
Which probably won’t happen now until March. 🙂
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Our truck
And two good neighbors who came to help
We finished…as the night started closing in!
Off to the elevator first thing in the morning and we said:
DONE!!!
YAY!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Mom said to tell you that Mom and Dad are in the end game of the corn harvest right now!
YAY! The Harvest of 2023 is almost in the bag!
TLC and Boo Berry
(And the big trucks and the big green machine won’t be coming through our yard anymore! YAY!)
We are going from fiery orange
To stunning Hot Pink
Which will gradually turn into a gentle
soft pink.
For now, though, we BLAZE forth in stunning glory!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Boo Berry and I were walking along the canal bank when I came across these lovely cattails blowing in the wind.
It was such a delightful sight.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Finally, after all the sun and the freezing and the thawing
We can walk on the farm now without being sucked down into the mud
The light breaking through to highlight the Adobie badlands seemed to shimmer in the evening air.
It was a bit of magic sitting there in frozen air–I feel grateful for seeing and getting to photograph the sparkle.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
But the sky!
Oh! My! How lovely the sky is!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
I’ve been feeding the birds
Winter is so hard on them. A few shakes of chicken food are good for helping keep everyone warm.
OH! MY!
SCATTER!!!!
(I’m sorry…I know the hawk is hungry too, but….not while I’m watching. Please.)
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
From all this to mud.
Mom says we just have to be patient
At least all the snow you see above it gone and now we just have MUD!
TLC and Boo Berry
We went for a walk down the farm road to see how muddy it is! It’s muddy.
We have little patches of snow in some places, and heavy frost in other places
But mostly now we have mud!
Lots of it.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
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