A Friday ritual.
A single photo – no words – capturing a single moment from the week
A simple, special extraordinary moment.
A moment to pause, savor and remember.
Participating with the SouleMama blog.
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Good Fences
Temporary electric net fencing is a godsend for dividing the pasture into paddocks for rotational grazing. Here we’ve set up a temporary paddock outside the perimeter fencing so that the bio-mowers – the wethers and some of the yearlings – can help us maintain part of the barnyard. After spending the day out in the barnyard, they are brought back into the barn at night.
Joining TexWisGirl at The Run*A*Round Ranch for a link-up at ‘Good Fences’.
In the Fiber Room
Sunday Muse
Gradually along the range
All things exchange their light
For darkness.
Single oaks
On hills that burned with gold
Merge now in shadow,
And hawks sail out
Over the valley,
Its air like a mirror
Filling with night,
That takes our images
And does not return them,
Just as the pines
Blot out our voices,
And even the stones at our feet
Fade from sight.
Now only the stars
Have eyes,
And around us sounds
Of things we cannot see
Begin to rise:
The owl’s single note,
And the coyote’s cry.
“Night in the Mountains” by Heather Allen
{this moment}
A Friday ritual.
A single photo – no words – capturing a single moment from the week
A simple, special extraordinary moment.
A moment to pause, savor and remember.
Participating with the SouleMama blog.
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| Happy Birthday to our girl, Maddie! |
Good Fences – Early Morning
Samson is off on an early morning patrol around the perimeter of the back paddock.
A good fence and a couple of good guardian dogs keep the flock safe from harm.
Joining TexWisGirl at The Run*A*Round Ranch for a link-up at ‘Good Fences’.
Moving Day
Busy weekend with lamb vaccinations, FAMACHA checking of the ewes, moving to a new paddock. In the end we were all seeking shade.
{this moment}
A Friday ritual.
A single photo – no words – capturing a single moment from the week
A simple, special extraordinary moment.
A moment to pause, savor and remember.
Participating with the SouleMama blog.
Good Fences – Sunrise
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, “Good fences make good neighbors.”
from ‘Mending Wall’ by Robert Frost
We’re excited to be joining TexWisGirl at The Run*A*Round Ranch for a new link-up ‘Good Fences’.
While We Were Lambing
During lambing season, we decided to take the back way home to catch a glimpse of the wildflowers. The beautiful show of white trillium, red trillium, trout lily, wood geranium and violets made the trip up the steep, narrow, rough road well worthwhile.
Each time we come home this way our thoughts are drawn to what must have been going through the minds of our Great-Great Grandparents Andrew and Amy and our Great Grandparents David and Hannah as they made this trip by horse and wagon carrying all their worldly possessions to our high mountain home.
What a blessing it is to have the opportunity to travel so often in their ‘footsteps’.