Finding Your Place in the World—-Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Posted on March 6, 2018 by Dayphoto

(a coyote running quickly through the yard)

I have wondered and wondered, for years, what is my purpose in life, what am I good at doing, is there anything I really can say is me? Any talent? Any real skill? Anything….?

So thinking about what I like–what I really like–is to be one with the natural world. There isn’t any money in it, nor is there power or prestige….but there so much joy for me.

What I really love to do is point out to you my observances of the natural world.

Even as a child I spent hours by myself, playing in the creek behind our house, sitting in the Silver-leafed Maple in the back yard, laying in the ditches in the fall (I put my coat in the ditch, than lay myself down on the coat and watched the leaves of the Cherry trees tremble and flutter in the autumn winds), reading in the sand box — feet propped on the the trunk of the Silver-leafed Maple, Queenie, our Border Collie at my side, my hair getting dirty in the sandbox…

I love sharing with you that joyous immersion of nature we, as farmers, experience.

To help you stand with me, along the margins of that line between earth and sky

To help you breathe in the warmth of our day

Or the scents of the night wafting on the breezes

To show you that stunning moon stretching fathomless away, — way among the spheres of stars, in worlds that gods walk, and starlight showers down, like petals falling from over-blown roses

I want to draw your eyes and hearts upward, beyond those thoughts that farmers are dull and stupid and dumb…tillers of the soil with no real ablity in their heads, no real ambitions, no real interest in living.

I hope that I can, with this daily blog, lift your hearts, your minds, and your souls to the music of the earth, the light of the sun, and the moon in the tree shadows.

(Some of my photos on today’s post are from my past photos.)

From my world to your heart,

Linda

This Journey—-Sunday, April 10, 2016

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Dayphoto

Way back when…9 years ago… I was at a place in my life where I wanted to start something new, but I didn’t know just what. At that point in my life I was working with a wonderful friend (still is a wonderful friend) who said to me–“Start a blog.”

The beginnings of my blog were rather bleak, I had so much to learn. But blogging combined several things I enjoyed doing —photography and working on our farm. I’m sure it was tremendously boring for others to read, but for me it was exhilarating.

As time moved on blogging became a tool to improve myself in my writing, the photos and my ability to express myself so each of my readers could see and feel what I see and feel every day.

The comments left by each of you are cherished— as an exchange about knowledge, understanding and connection. For a long-time I personally sent an email to each individual who commented. Today I answer on the blog, so everyone can see and participate and even get to know someone of interest who is a fellow commenter.

This little blog of mine has given to me friends from all over the world, people I get to meet in a daily way every day by my blog.

Although, I have never had a blog post reprinted in a magazine, or a post go super viral,or even viral :), I have had the absolute fun of writing– I write about farming, rainbows, the land and my love of it, every aspect of the sky and— ‘stories’ about the dogs who live on our farm.

As long as I can remember I wrote stories, stories in the first grade, stories in Jr. High, stories in high school and college, stories and poetry after I started raising children. Writing stories on the blog is a huge delight to me.

This is MY conversation with you. And it’s an honest conversation…I like writing TO You. I like Sharing WITH you. I like Showing you, without an agenda, our life on a western Colorado farm.

And I delight in your conversations with me.

Now having said all that I just want to say Thank you for your friendship! It’s a wonderful journey.

From my heart to yours!

Linda

My Eighth Year of Blogging–Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Dayphoto

This month I have been blogging for eight years! Over that time I’ve learned much about blogging…the first posts were so dismal…I just posted a photo with the word (for instance) Terry plowing and under the photo I wrote–plowing.

Over time I began to understand how to blog so it was at least a tad more interesting. 🙂

Although, this started out as a farming blog, in reality it really hasn’t changed much. It still is a farming blog, but it is also a tiny peak into our lives and the lives of the animals that live with us on the farm.

You get to see the struggles, and the successes. Yesterday we worked on ONE of the broken gated pipes (we still have two more to go).

DONE!

You’ve met our children, and our grand children and all the dog grandchildren.

You cried along with me over the loss of my Fuzzy.

And now you are reading a fictional serial with Boomer as the Star.

I have grown older in the eight years

and so has Terry. Every year he says he is going to stop farming…then comes Spring and he begins again. This year he said: “I guess I really can’t stop, I think my blood is really made of dirt”. We had a big laugh at that, but you know something, it just might be true. 🙂

Anyway, thank you, each and everyone of you, those who comment and those who just drop by and visit for a spell. I appreciate you…it makes blogging extra fun.

Very humbly, your friend on a farm in western Colorado,

Linda

2012 in review December 31, 2012

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Dayphoto

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 83,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.