I am still feeding the birds. The Red-winged blackbirds won’t leave until the Upper End and the Back Forty Green Up.
I do love these very talkybox birds!
And Their Very lovely trilling song!
The big birds are starting to leave us. By the end of March, they will be gone.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The leaves have been a tad HUGE this year.
I can finally say I got all the farm buildings raked around the equipment area,
and can start on the yard next.
But I think I will wait until the third week in March —- hopefully we will have water then. If not, it will be whatever it is.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Sometimes I look up, and my breath catches—WHEW!
The burning off of the fields, ditches, and whatever else is more than frightening.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Yep! It’s time.
Now that there are spears of green lush alflafa growing
The equines don’t want to eat anywhere else but in the alfalfa fields.
Time to move them off and move us on to the fields!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Yep! (Caught on a game camera—I had to see who was making that STINK! 🙂 )
Your friend on a western COlorado farm,
Linda
ALFALFA!!! (and Cheat Grass and Wild Mustard)
YAY!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
We are brown again!
YAY!
We love brown!
Mom and Dad were very happy for the snow, but for us fur kids, brown is beautiful.
Peeing in the snow is hard—Boo Berry
Digging a hole to pee is hard — TLC
I use the box! I am not stupid. Hobbs
The slanting light gives us blue shadows—coloring the fast-melting bits of snow
The snow is going fast now! We are entering the dreaded of all seasons—MUD!!!
But if the air continues to warm, we just might go through mud season quickly!
Snow shadows!!! ENJOY!
Your friend on western Colorado farm,
Linda
After the snow, we had cold—
with slabs of sunlight that slowly warmed and shifted the ice and snow
It hazed the ice and shimmered across the frozen white
Then it warmed, and the melt began. The ice and snow thudded off the roof, winking and reflecting dazzling light as everything slid to earth.
It was lovely. (Because….since it’s February and and ALMOST MARCH—It won’t last long 🙂 )
From my heart to your world,
Linda
I love the snow! The cats and Boo not so much.
It’s not lasting long. But I do have photos to remember it
And the ice and the shadows—-It is/was like walking in a dream, and wee dream of snow. We’ve been wayyyyyy too dry.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
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