Ideas for 2025—Monday, January 13, 2025

Posted on January 13, 2025 by Dayphoto

Ideas have flickered in and out of my thoughts for 2025

What would I like to get done this year? Are there any projects waiting for me to finally finish up? Do we (Terry and I) want to take a wee trip here and there to see something new and/or different?

Then I go outside and sit on the bench watching the stars and planets spinning quietly in the sky.

And I think—maybe just enjoying the fragrance of each and every night is enough. The beauty of the day is perfect as it is. No matter what has been accomplished or what has been left undone.

Maybe the rest of my life is more like a bouquet of flowers instead of a list of chores.

“May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.” — Mary Anne Radmacher

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

Although it is Friday—The Fur Kids are Taking a Break, Instead We Get to See a Rainbow, Friday, January 13, 2023

Posted on January 13, 2023 by Dayphoto

Dear Linda,

We’ve had so much rain over the past months, here in Auckland New Zealand, but the sun shone yesterday at the end of the day and the rainbow rose out of the sodden land with ease and grace; a welcome surprise. It was so high and large that I could photograph only a portion of it.

I thought of you, and then when I came inside, your latest blog post arrived!

I love your blog and read them all, even though I don’t always comment.

Best wishes,

Juliet

Oh! Juliet! What a perfect gift! We have been having lots and lots of long grey days. To see the green and the rainbow is so uplifting and perfect!

Thank you ever so much!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I Will be Seventy THREE!!! WOW!, Thursday, January 13, 2022

Posted on January 13, 2022 by Dayphoto

WOW! Just thinking of that new age to be is amazing really!

But for right now! I’m still 72—then tomorrow 73!

Wow!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

The Clear, Even Tone, of Shadows — Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Posted on January 13, 2021 by Dayphoto

I love the sun, and the moon, and Light

For without those things we can not have that other thing I love

Shadows!

Those unremarkable {But VERY remarkable} steady signs of Light!

Telling us anything is possible. For if there are shadows there is light.

And time is ours to create, imagine, explore, experience!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

Watching that Morning Sky — Monday, January 13, 2020

Posted on January 13, 2020 by Dayphoto

Dawn is a slowly growing experience. Always. But more so in the dead of winter

The air actually starts to feel like it is growing lighter, like ripples akin to a stream

The dark of the night leaving, the color of the day creeping upward

Small slivers of pink glide across the horizon

Until the night shadows retreat; color breaking forth to light our active days

The game camera caught me while out taking photos of that amazing beginning of a short winter day.

From my world to your heart,

Linda

Everything Normal for January — Sunday, January 13, 2019

Posted on January 13, 2019 by Dayphoto

Each day is a typical January day for our part of the high desert plains of Colorado

We were in the slush and slog of a quiet winter melt

When Saturday morning we woke up to a wee lovely snow

Enough Terry thought he would take a small ride down the long, long lane to the county road

Beaglie and I went for walk up the farm to the haystack are and back

Later in the afternoon, the sun came out and what was once a snow-packed road became a road of melt

The result by the ending of the day…we were back to MELT!! (Mud)

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

Confused Weather–Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Posted on January 13, 2015 by Dayphoto

Look at this weather! Typical of summer, but not the middle of January!

And…it really isn’t all that cold—it’s 35* (I think that is 1.66 in celsius ???) right now. The ratty and tired snow is now gone and huge mud puddles in it’s place. There is no really working outside in this. (Although, I will still need to haul wood for the fireplace.)

Yesterday Terry and I did some maintenance jobs around the yard involving the chain saw, we were able to do them without moisture—snow or rain.

We still have a list of chores that needs to be done and soon…one of them is to put a new roof on the tilehouse, another is to finish hooking up the wood stove in one of the shops, and of course the fences all need to be walked and checked. The ditch company is very bad about just cutting the fence, if they want in …drives us bats. We have gates—sure they might have to walk a short distance to get to the gate (we leave them open during farming season) and then walk another short distance to get where ever it is they want to be. But no…they just cut the four strands of barbed wire – down the fences go and in they walk. Sure is disrespectful and (basically) lazy.

Anyway… (this is a summer rain photo with a Boomer nose on the side)

I will enjoy this sorta–like summer rain and do some baking. It will be nice to get caught back up on my house stuff.

Your friend,

Linda

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Dayphoto

It’s snowing here today.

Last night, I remembered that I hadn’t taken my 4 o’clock photo yet. I usually take it on Wednesday afternoon, but for some reason it slipped my mind.

Our days are growing longer, instead of 9 hours and 30 minutes long, we have reached new lengths of 9 hours and 42 minutes.

We are still cold. Although, three days ago we warmed up to above freezing for about two hours, I did the happy feet dance the whole time.

Our day was darkening down when I got outside, the snow clouds just starting to blow in over the Plateau. Our storms usually come out of eastern Utah, crossing the Uncompahgre, then moving on past us toward the North Fork of Delta county. From there I don’t know where the storms go.

Randomly and very rarely (right where we live) a big storm will roll into Montrose from the Durango area, blow itself around to the Plateau and then land on us. The storms from the San Juan area can lose steam at Montrose and never make it clear on down here to our Mesa.

Even rarer is the storm that comes in from Gunnison, spins onto Montrose, then to us. Usually those storms (the ones from Gunnison head into Peach Valley and the Black Canyon area, then into the town proper of Delta).

I watch the sky a lot……as if you can’t tell. The sky and the weather are major interest and concerns when you farm and have animals that live outside.