We were heading home the other day when I saw another rainbow! We aren’t getting rain right at our house, but there are rainstorms around us.
That’s a Win-Win for sure!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The corn is starting to tassel out!!! And along with the tassels—
Baby corn ears are developing!
(The pollen from the tassels will pollinate the silks on the ears; viola! CORN!)
“Each person who delivers kindness stays with us forever.” — Robin S. Sharma
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
So, into the twilight
Where everything is big and large and full of the day’s last light.
Yes….Terry and I truly do find joy, in being out on the land.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Black Beauty is COOL!!!
(We think we should have some! TLC and Boo Berry)
Another thing you need to pay attention to is the BIG, LOUD, STUFF!
Like the tractors
Corn choppers
Hay Swather
The baler
Old trucks
Mom and Dad’s four-wheelers,
The pick-ups
Mom’s Car
The Lawnmower,
All those things can KILL you! Smash you flatter than a smashed miller.
When you hear one start-up or
one coming into the farmyard
RUN!
Your life depends on it!
Mindy Lou-Sue, or as Mom calls me, Min-Min
I sometimes get to thinking this blog is rather repetitious
I seem to only write about the sky, the plants on the farm
My yard
Irrigating…morning, noon, night
Animals which move around in the night
And the day
The worker bee of the farm...the whole farm runs on this one person, you do understand
Sometimes I liven things up a tad
OR a daytime sighting of a typically nocturn fox
Oh, Yes, I forgot we do have the returning deer
And the joyful visit of grandchildren and granddogs
And that sweet little beagle
And that very independent cat.
Not only the work of spring, summer, and fall, the work of winter
I suppose it may be repetitious
It is our life…
Shared with you on this wee little space in time
a miracle on our tiny spot of Earth and Sky
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
It’s been fun trying to take photos of bugs in flight. (I know you already know that, but I had to tell you anyway 🙂 🙂 )
Although, I still find it thrilling to get birds in flight
Do you ever come across something in your day that is so perfect
So wonderful that you just must capture it on camera,
So it can stay in that perfect place of perfection forever?
I do. And when I do
I always think to myself: What a gift this life is, what an amazingly beautiful,
meant to be enjoyed, Life we live!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
A big storm rolled in last evening…massive clouds dropping chutes of rain all around us
The thunder and lightning played along the Uncompahgre Plateau
Terry and I sat outside under the carport and letting raindrops fall all around us.
After the fast-moving storm headed beyond us it was time to change the irrigation water one last time before night.
The light tumbling and playing within and on the storm clouds was invigorating.
Coming back in through all the fields of corn, alfalfa and the pinto beans I thought to myself the air feels more like August than July. The heat sits on one (I AM NOT COMPLAINING — I do so love Summer!) the air hot and humid, and a certain stillness which bespeaks of growing and maturing plants.
Later, much later, Boomer and I went for a wee walk about–just to look at that glorious flourishing moon!
Drowning us in light. The clouds tumbling before a high-unseen wind; first covering the moon then not.
Closer to morning I saw the moon peaking light throughout the tops of the tasseled corn.
I think night is just so beautiful. I do.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
The corn is starting to tassel out…
And baby ears of corn starting to form
The pinto beans are shooting feelers (last year’s photo–I lost this years somehow—I’ve been weeding the 16 acres early morning and late evening. Once the rows grow shut anything nasty growing out there—corn, cockleburs, ragweed, Pigweed, yellow sticker weed, scotch thistle….gets to grow. Not a good thing, but how it is.
My yard is doing
Great! The new railroad ties beds are softening up and looking ever so much better
The air smells lush and rich– full of sweetness
Summer — I can’t ask for anything more!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
After Terry cut the alfalfa and I stopped painting for the day–meaning after supper, we went out and worked in the pinto bean field.
WE FINISHED!!! The pinto beans are free and clear (for a spell)
There will be weeds appearing again, but for Terry and I— we are done. The pinto beans are starting to shoot the feelers. These little vines will grab onto to each other and cause the rows to grow shut.
The sun had set and we were heading back home, when I noticed something flashing and twinkling in the late evening sky.
Drifting down, down, down we saw it land gently in the upper part of the pinto bean field. Hopeing it would NOT get away I hurried to the upper end of the pinto bean field, to see a helium balloon shaped like a star resting among the pinto bean rows.
A fun little gift from the heavens!
I nestled the star on the four-wheeler, laying a large rock on it’s string, tucked my weeding knife securing under the bars and brought the falling star home.
Your friend on a Western Colorado farm,
Linda
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