Kagedog sent me this beautiful photograph. She graciously said I could share it with you.
Here is what she wrote to me: ” Doesn’t this kind of look like a Grant Wood painting? :) I took it right before our first snowfall last week. You can see the snow that had already fallen on the Grand Mesa.
I just love it! Thank you, Kagedog!
Your friend,
Linda
It is raining here. It’s also snowing…the flakes are huge and beautiful and wet. We are warm for a snow storm so when the flakes make contact with something they burst into a wet drop.
KageDog a long-time blog reader, lover of Sandhill Cranes and all things Australia lives at the base of Grand Mesa in Cedaredge, Colorado. She sent me a beautiful photo from her deck showing the clouds covering all the basins between Cedaredge and Delta.
Among all the wonderful Christmas cards Terry and I have received, we also got this pretty cool
Black Guillemot in winter plumage at Bangor from Margaret Adamson.
Thank you each and everyone of you for all of your Christmas Cards and Good Wishes. We feel very lucky to have such wonderful blog friends in our lives!
Your friends on a Western Colorado Farm,
Linda
I’m sorry that I miss lead you somehow…I didn’t grow up in Craig, Colorado. I grew up in Eckert, Colorado.
My Dad’s people arrived here in around 1900, settling in the Read/Austin area. My Momma’s people came when she was a freshman in high school–around 1943.
There were just the two of us—myself and my brother. My brother lives in the Denver, Colorado, area now, but I live here.
Although, I grew up in the Eckert, Cedaredge (my Dad and Grandparents on my Mother’s side had huge orchards which were part of our income)
I’ve lived on this farm all of my adult life accept for the first two years of our marriage.
My parents are the ones who moved to Craig, Colorado. After selling the gas station they operated the orchards only. After several years of bad prices and huge expenses Daddy got a job with Colorado Ute (now Tri-State). He was 37 years old when they moved to Hayden, Colorado. By that time we had Shannon and were waiting the birth of Evan (we have four children–Shannon, Evan, Kimberly, and Misty. Misty is the one who just moved to Craig.)
And that is the irony…my parents and now our youngest living in the Craig area. Hayden is just a 30 minute drive from Craig, Colorado.
It’s still raining here…we had 2″ of water when I checked this morning. Still for a short while there is sunshine, then another downpour is expected starting around noon. Wet we are, that is for sure.
Anyway, I apologize if I made it sound like I grew -up in Craig.
Your friend,
Linda
Along the way I saw….
Big birds eating corn in the corn field, are they cranes? Are they Blue Herons? They kept moving away from me, I wonder why?
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.
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!
Then on the way home, we drove the ‘back road’ from Cedaredge into Delta, where a wonderland exists for dirt back riders, and other people who like to play on these barren hills.
Life on a Colorado Farm 