The Skyline—Tuesday, January 3, 2015

We finished with all the huge, gigantic stuff yesterday.  It took all three of us…the men on the tractors and me doing the ground work, but we made it!

There is such joy in those three words–WE MADE IT!!!

BestHere is a photo of the skyline—I almost forgot, which is why you are getting it in the evening.

Better-SkylineYou can still see the lightening struck tree (stump) in the back, but the front only looks a little thinner.  I think I worried for nothing. Remember Misty wants that stumps to create another play area for the kids.

BookendsI will try to get a better photo today!  I don’t think it will show a huge gaping hole–like I was afraid it would. (This is the one before the trees were cut)

Today we are building fences, so I must hurry and get myself down there–Terry is already there setting up the electric fencer.  We begin in earnest, on the fences the second I arrive.

Your friend

Linda

 

 

 

The Pause—Saturday, January 3, 2015

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Winter colors are always so soft and muted.  They lend no warmth to the land…none.

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While the colors of summer blaze forth and simmer in intense bold shades of red, orange and purple

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Springs hues are all fresh and new…the new green of leaves as they unfurl, the sprigs of bright green grass showing up among the dry shades of winter brown,Either-WayFall’s golden flames shine forth from the brilliant trees to the bright blue of the sky

Winter-Sky2But winter…pale and cold and frigid.

Winter-3Surrounds everything in the color and feel of snow

Winter-Storm-4Wind relentless in its fury picks up the snow and flings it burning and biting into anything it touches

Winter-1The colors of winter…blue, lavender, pink and white.  The colors of silence, of waiting, of hunkering down, resting….

Your friend on a very frozen farm in western Colorado,

Linda