Agreed we can't live on and in the Sabbath! Sunday is a special day, for certain sure, with soaking in Words of the ages wisdom for all ages and remembrance, precious, of one who died for us, for me So we come to Monday! How can we have a bit, still, of Sunday, as [...]
Sometimes things don't work presenting a great adventure! Jump on the problem! Be a grizzly bear! make it right right now! Sometimes that doesn't work! Try, and try again and still it's just not right and you know it On the phone again and again try this, try that think Along comes a [...]
A fascinating plant Maize, or corn The tassel high on top in its time throwing pollen Light but loaded, floating down to... Just in time the silks Little tubes in waiting each to carry a single pollen grain in to a special place an egg in waiting The two become one, and a kernal [...]
Rain rest election day 2014 I'm on it. Judges sit in a row My name is on the scroll In the book of life political I'm in! Two pages of issues Candidates 4 billion spent Gone Darken the circle Darken the doors Be there I show up once Winners show up for years 2,4,6,8 [...]
Dark plus 2 I walked to my nearby truck the prairie was quiet after a day of roaring harvest machines The sky was bright with stars more than I could ever count what a display of span so grand I stood held fast I was standing on the soil in a field my great [...]
The farm, well mechanized, has lots of tires, lots of motors, and lots of shifting transmissions, shifting gears As seasons shift so must we to match our efforts to changing tasks Winter has us pondering computing and thinking How to make the numbers work Changing prices, inputs and outcomes, somehow we need more 'leftover' [...]
Days of rain during harvest give us a time to rest But all too quickly we begin to wonder "Where's the sun?" We peer at the darkened, cloudy sky and wish for the warming, drying sun So critical for harvest happening Rain storms pass by with wind, lightning and thunder as we watch, helpless [...]
Horses chose corn row widths way back when The horse's rump determined the gap to allow the horse and farmer passage Over the years things change and others stay the same We've gone from 40 down to 30 and some even down to 20 as machines replaced the horse's hinny the goal to capture [...]
A world of color and shape and texture and size Brought from catalogs from other gardens from other places Brought together in fine imagination becoming reality as paintings are painted master gardeners sculpt in plants Beds and borders raised and sunken terraced and potted arranged just so the creations bloom and shower color and [...]
Evening in the city my experienced friend the driver Heather and I in her BMW speed along brake hard and speed again the sea of cars and people ebb and flow at rush hour To the Reception! People from around the world a mix of winners and judges and The Company Interesting and fascinating [...]