The Air Smells Like Autumn Now — Thursday, September 21, 2023

The signs are every where

It’s Onion Harvest (no, we don’t raise onions, but our neighbors do)

Pinto Bean harvest (we stopped raising beans a few years back) is happening just across the road from us

(The ensilage/silage trucks are thick on the roads)

The third cutting of hay is done or being done even as I write.

(Ours is all cut, baled, stacked,  and sold.  The last load went out Saturday afternoon—YAY)

(Some of these photos are from my archives—still, everything is happening just as I have written)

The only thing going on now (for us) is irrigation. The alfalfa and grass cannot go into winter dry.  And the corn needs to be as full and heavy with water as possible.

Yes…Autumn—our world is full of harvests!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda