Unsightly? Or gift of nature? It all depends on the eye of the beholder. Let me share with you some photos I took while walking our farm. You may call these images eye sores or, in a different frame of mind, texturally appealing. I live in the country. Manicured lawns and trees pruned to perfection are not part of our […]
Life on the Farm
Life on the Farm / Spring Harvest
Just thought I’d share some pictures showing what’s happening on our dairy farm right now, so you know this writer has a life besides writing Part of our oat crop is being chopped and put into silage pits such as the one you see here to turn into silage for feed. A tractor pushes up and packs […]
Journal Treasures / Walking the Farm
Here’s a selection taken from my journal, titled “Walking the Farm,” a sharing, so you know how at least one writer’s mind works. I’m currently reading a book called Epitaph for a Peach, Four Seasons on my Family Farm, by David Mas Masumoto. He has shown me that it’s possible to write beautifully and informatively about farm life. Inspired by […]
End of Summer, You Reap What You Sow
I woke up Tuesday morning to fog, a surprise, since it was the last day of August in California, still summer as far as I was concerned. At first I panicked, thought there was a fire nearby and that we were surrounded by a huge cloud of smoke. But that idea fizzled quickly enough. No […]
