Then the sun came! It filled our lives like a marvelous hug!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
It’s Been Cloudy and Grey for Days Now — Tuesday, November 25, 2025
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Ah—-How I love the Glow of the Sun —- Monday, February 24, 2025
I love how it breaks up the Uncompahgre Plateau Range
Or the morning light fills the cracks and crevices on the Uncompahgre Plateau
Or gifts us with a Sundog or is that a rainbow?
And there there is the light through birds’ wings!
Light! Sunshine! Who can ask for more?
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.”–Ralph Waldo Emerson
From my world to your heart,
Linda
(All photos on this post is from my archives—some of my favorite photos of LIGHT!)
A Shinning Simplicity — Tuesday, March 21, 2023
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
We (Will Seem to) Pause for a Little Spell—Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Today we are in the shift…from the longest night of the year, where darkness drags on and on
Where shadows grow long early in the day
and swirl heavily into the evening
But gradually, ever so slowly, the daylight hours will stretch
(Coyote visiting our yard 😦 )
And the night time minutes grow shorter and shorter
Sunlight will stretch a few seconds longer and longer each and every day
Until the seconds become minutes
Then the minutes will become an hour
At which time we reach Daylight Saving time, where we have a full hour added to our daily Sunlight
But even though the days grow longer,
For two full months, January and February
The days will grow colder and colder
Hopefully with moisture
Called snow.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The Adventures of Boomer on Friday— Out and About with Mom and Mindy (sometimes)
Mom and I
and sometimes Mindy, took walks in the rain, in the wind, at night, and in the storm we had.
But this morning we took a walk in SUNSHINE!
Anyway, here are some of the things we saw
These tiny birds are back…YAY! Mom and I love to see them and watch them…they watch us, by freezing very still, not moving at all.
If Mom talks to them, they get very nervous but don’t move.
Last night, after the storm left, Mom and I went for a short walk to the old tree, which is no longer there, because the ditch company sprayed and killed it….and Mom saw a helicopter coming our way.
She took a picture (Mom always has her camera with her) just to see if the helicopter would show up. Only the lights on the helicopter showed up. Still kinda cool.
Our storms were mild compared to other places so the renter is back on the land this morning.
The sun setting through the storm last night was rather cool.
Mom and I checked the apricot blooms…yep, froze. There might be a few that make it, but nothing like there could have been.
The canal water came yesterday!
Mom and Dad and I all thought YAY!
Dad says today we make ditches!
Oh! I hear a big truck! I know that motor!
Gotta go!
See ya,
Boomer
I Pushed Through the Panic —- Thursday, March 28, 2019
I pushed through the panic and started the heavy lifting of the old railroad ties. Terry came over with the four-wheeler and helped. He on one end and I on the other.
We loaded the ties onto the four-wheeler and drove them over to the coral gardens, which I have decided to spruce up a wee bit also
Terry worked with me for a couple of hours; afterward leaving to go do some work at the Upper End.
I like the new look to the flowerbeds at the corral garden spot. The old boards were starting to rot so repurposing the boards with the railroad ties will help keep everything going strong there.
Here you can compare…the new beds with the railroad ties and the two older beds.
I hope to get the two older beds freshened today.
We lifted and removed the ties.
Then later as I hauled soil to the repurposed beds and replanted my plants I looked carefully at what was happening!.
Seeing my garden beds with new eyes, so to speak.
And I LOVED it!
I will get everything out this bed and plant it all to grass.
The grass will be so much nicer to deal with!
Since I can’t figure out what to do with the bed where I keep all the bird feeders, I decided to take Janice Blawat’s, Emily Summer’s and Sara’s advice.
I am going to plant a ground cover or herbs in the bed and hope they smother everything out!
There!
I am moving forward!
Thank you each and everyone for the excellent advice and concern. I will have to seriously look into a sprinkler system at some point. Then my work will be shrunk to a more manageable size. (I hope)
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
A Song of Storms and Wind—-Sunday, February, 17, 2019
Friday night a storm started blowing in
The moon once clear, but with a halo, became fuzzy with clouds
By morning we were in a series of storms
The clouds grey and vaporous, dark and wraithlike
The wind pushing them along in a haunting song of winter’s lullaby
The wind was so sharp and cold it could peel your skin
All around the storm’s outriders turned the world to grey and then white
The wind howled and the rain fell flat and stinging
But by evening the lashing storm had spent itself, moving onward to other parts of the land
The clouds turned to gold and the air filled with sunshine.
Although, we are cold today…the day is beautiful; singing a much different song then yesterday!
From my heart to your world,
Linda
I Love Watching Shadows—-Sunday, December 16, 2018
From my office window upstairs I can see the shadows as they change, develop, and disappear daily
They grow long, shrink short,
Compress together until many shadows become one
The sunlight moves upon the land making all the shadows
Ripple and move like silk
Until the land is deep into the dark
But the full sun also forms magic shadows
Shadows all brought to us by that exquisite sky
From my world to your heart,
Linda
That Bright Curtain of Sunlight—Thursday, May 3, 2018
This is an old story. Not ancient, but one of those stories which keeps repeating itself until the mind and body feels exhausted.
We are so cold here I actually have a fire in the wood stove again. What an oddity, but a fact.
We keep having amazingly nasty weather this spring. Wind…mighty wind, huge amounts of wind that sock you right in the face and blow around things even tightly fastened.
Then lots of cold gray clouds full of moisture, which never really drops on our part of the world. It rained in town one day, and just down the road a mile, but only got the ground wet here.
Wet works for it cleans up the air and refreshing the plants.
But for a second, on the morning of May 1,…before all the clouds amassing over the plateau become thicker and thicker — pushed along to cover the whole of the sky.
There is was…a miracle of golden morning light, shadows shafting across the rich green alfalfa field…and I was outside basking in that spill of light and shadows.
Lucky me!
From my heart to your world,
Linda
The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—-Friday Update
We had a winter storm come in on Tuesday. What a long boring day that was….the cats and I slept most the day.
Then Wednesday we had SUNSHINE!
Beautiful SUNSHINE!
And Thursday!
And TODAY!
Early morning the birds still look like its cold.
The storm blew in a pair of Robin’s! Mom was ecstatic! I didn’t get it, they were just Robins. But Mom was happy so I was too!
I got in huge trouble because I brought in a fresh afterbirth. I had just brought it onto the lawn when Mom saw me. Grabbed the really yummy thing and hauled it to the burn barrel.
Bummer!
Mom, Dad, and I do a daily calf run. I Love Going on the Four-Wheeler! I just love it! I’m safe up there, from those old mean momma cows, and I can see and sniff to my heart’s content, without having to walk!
Mom and Dad are still cutting and hauling and stacking wood. Three loads a day. Although, they don’t go if the weather is snowing.
Just a minute…..
Scratch, scratch…I’ve got an itch!!!
OH!
MAILMAN!!!
GOTTA RUN!
BOOMER
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