“Boo Berry!!!
This doesn’t look good! Let’s hurry home and see what is happening! ” Mom cried as she picked me up and sat me in my car seat.
“Oh! My! Gosh! 
Get in the house TLC and Boo Berry! Our neighbor is burning his cornfields!: Mom ran us to the house and put us inside.
Later we learned Dad and Mom were out there making sure nothing sparked over our way.
It all turned out okay…but boy, that was scary for a spell!
Boo Berry
Good-bye Sweet Red-Winged Black birds
Always the first sign of Spring in my yard.
Now that your Summer home is greening up (the Upper End and the Back Forty of our farm) I will have to drive to see and hear you sing.
And I will because you are such special birds to me.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The sun has been seen so rarely all this late fall, winter, and now early spring
That when we do have it we are over-wrought with
Immense joy.
I would like to hang onto the joy of the sun. Instead, we have the diaphanous sheen of pearly grey.
Sigh.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The sky bright with the joy
The big birds (Canadian geese and the Sandhill Cranes)
Uncomplicated happiness of pure delight
Gathering and sorting themselves into long pointed arrows
Heading home again toward Spring and Summer and new little chicks.
Jubilation, determination, happiness, all filtering down to us…here on the earth.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Caught on the game cam
As bold as you please
Right by the barn.
This is exactly why Mindy has to stay inside at night.
Although, she sometimes doesn’t want to.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Boomer and I went for our wee evening walk, coming home just in time to see the Worm Moon starting to rise over the Paonia Mountains
I don’t usually mark my photos, allowing any and all of you to copy and use as long as you give me credit,
But I felt these were exceptional.
You are still welcome to use them
The sight was wonderful; fully charged with the golden glow of the Worm Moon of March
The sky was just darkening
The rising moon’s light lifting into the world
So huge and large
I stood mesmerized!
From my world to your heart,
Linda
Lady is changing by leaps and bounds. She allows the halter to be put on her face, and IF we don’t come at her face, or try to pet her face in anyway shape or form (she had bloody whip lashes on her face when Shannon got her —and old scars on her rear) she is welcoming to our hands
This is a friend’s little kitty….she is very affectionate and loves hanging right by your feet, joyfully purring the whole time.
Then there is that silly, full of personality, Willow, one of Shannon’s cats…he has started smelling like dried alfalfa for some reason 🙂
Animals…they are such an added bonus to our lives.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
George, a long-time blog friend, sent me a gift of a lifetime.
A moonbow! He and his dearly beloved wife, Betsy had gone to Cumberland Falls State Park in Kentucky for his birthday. Heading out on a clear moonlight night they went to the falls to see if they could see a MoonBow in the water. You can read about their experience here.
And here is Betsy’s wonderful blog.
What an amazing gift!!! There they were with the moon making a path stretching all along the water, shadows of the night along the trees and bushes, the mist from the falls cold around their feet, the silence that isn’t silence for the thundering of the fall…and then
The moonlight shimmering all along the mist of the water!
Wow! Thank you, George!
From my world to your heart,
Linda
Yesterday was the first day of Spring. The first day that the daylight hours are longer than the night time hours.
My beloved Maternal Grandmother…used to say that when spring time starts the world lies in a balance between dark and light.
(Terry is rolling down the plowed fields today)
Call me strange, but I swear I can feel the earth shifting and stirring beneath my feet as the air changes.
The change hums in my blood, the blood of the plants and the animals. Bringing contentment and joy.
I just achieved my 9th year of blogging on Sunday. 9 years of being friends with you.
Thank you everyone!
Happy Spring!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
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