The sun season has changed and our air is springtime first blushes from plants seem rushing this year An abrupt shift from winter a mild one it was so the warming sun has clicked and plants come to heel Swelling buds tiny leaves grass yawning and stretching then racing to be mowed farmers and [...]
Meandering up country roads I did my best to soak A beautiful spring day blue sky, cumulous clouds fresh green grass and budding trees I zig zagged near a river heading back to the farm The woods were dotted black with Angus cows a grazing lazily munching along safe and secure on the edge of [...]
We humans are strange folks our emotions try to prove it! When pain comes our way if it's big enough we cry Warm tears flood from our eyes as though the bad can be washed away somehow, it does help Does anyone know how? Today I'm thinking of the other sort the tears that [...]
Cold iron moves from shed on stiff rubber tires A disk blade or spring cultivator eases into the rich, loam soil and the farmer gets a first whiff! There's that stirring in the memory of communion with the soil and all the things a farmer does to raise the plants that feed us clothe us [...]
It's a magic moment in my day when I see the eastern sky first light is beckoning every day is different Night time clouds darken areas but one knows the sun is coming Rather we are spinning towards it our earth rolling around it will be our turn To think, to do a thousand [...]
What a gathering! Folks up to their tasks so different! Some primed and "Ready! Set! Bang!" and others, standing at ready, relaxed going to run the marathon.... From 20's to 80's in ages growing up in eras so different music and styles far apart yet here they were captured for a moment at a Farm [...]
It happens ever so often I stop, realize, the scene before me this place where I live is simply, profoundly enchanting First light last night's snow slipped lightly on the trees has marked, outlined winter gray branches down to the tiny twigs snow rests not even clinging just lofted down quietly as if it [...]
A skiff, a flurry, a snow storm, a blizzard we have them all on the prairie! For cash grain farmers the same applies to meetings during winter! The constant change, in agriculture drives us to always be learning So, when winter comes so do meetings and they come like the snow Computers help an [...]
We humans have a place a way beyond the see treasures there abound to savor and enjoy The land of beauty surrounding us unfolds in seasons grand summer foliage winter whites frosted window panes springtime flowers fall colors shouting Cars and quilts and thousands of things that somehow pleasure our see Then there's love [...]
Grandpa had a lot of cattle a hundred forty head or so and thus the pasture lessons! Along life's highway valued flags to sift and sort some wisdom Cowpies always favorites! Dried, they made nice campfires wet, like polka dots we learned to step around them lesson one: cowpies happen Nature has its ways, [...]