Often times I need to remind myself: The world is full of songs,
Dancing
AND JOY!
All I have to do is
Look!
Birds! They remind us always that each day is trembling with exciting possibilities!
We just have to meet the possibility with Excitement!
From my world to your heart,
Linda
Terry and I have started Spring work—but only in my yard and in the farm yard.
We are over winter! Well, at least we are over — hanging out in the house all the time.
So then this past week we’ve chopped out a horrid old bush that I couldn’t do by myself
We split and hauled firewood
And we ripped out all the invasive Wood Ivy along the corrals. Plus started cleaning in the corrals.
Yep! Winter…I’m a tad tired of you. Although, I do appreciate the wee storms we’ve experienced and the moisture in the mountains.
So here we be…week 8 of winter.
(And the songbirds agree with me…we talk about it all the time. 🙂 )
Your friend on a western Colorado farm
Linda
What are you doing, TLC?
Waiting for Mom or Dad?
You wait, then, I’m going out to the chicken house and look at
BIRDS!
Oh! Mom is here! Hi, Mom! Looking at birds are you?
SHHHHHHHHHH, Mom replied.
Okay.
Boo Berry
No babies yet! We drive out once a day. I’m sure it won’t be long now before at Least One cow has a calf!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
I love how everything has a shadow!!
Shadows are a testament to each and all things upon the earth (and a gift from the sun)
They bring quiet and feelings of stillness
In scorching summer they offer a retreat from the heat
They also add to the song of each and every day
Shadows!
They make my heart sing with joy, gladness, and delight!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
I have to use photos from my archives—please forgive me. They have been hard to photograph lately
There is something you can’t help but love about Crows
They are so incredibly bright—studies have shown they are as bright as a nine-year old child.
They do have some very scavenger habits–
That I really don’t care for: like trying to peck out the eyes of newborn calves, poaching baby birds from other nests to feed their own, and devouring exhausted songbirds on their way home.
Still, there are other marvelous things about them—they talk to each other, and to you (if you talk to them) and clean up those ‘dead’ things so the earth stays fresh and clean.
Besides, I think they are just darn right “purdy”!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
I am having a hard time getting through winter—it’s been raining here (WHICH IS WONDERFUL)
But–it makes me long for Spring—for the world to start to wake up!
I’m ready,
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
I am trying hard! Really I am!
I just need something different to look at something—not winterish—something —- OH!!!
THEY ARE BACK!!!
THE REDWINGED BLACKBIRDS HAVE RETURNED!!!
YAY!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Purrrfect!
TLC
I look at the sky- wherever I am, my HEART sings!
The joy/the beauty/of the world just lifts me up body and soul!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm
Linda
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