Surviving Old Age: Part One.

Can we talk about surviving old age?  It isn’t mine I’m worried about. It’ll catch up without any help from me. I am more concerned with the herd here at Infinity Farm. We used to positively percolate with vitality and there was a dancing  joie de vivre here on the windy, treeless prairie. Everyone bounded … Read more

Weekly Photo Challenge: Illumination

Isn’t the word Illumination sometimes used in conjunction with saints?  Maybe this horse with a halo is a patron saint- sent to ferry us above the fray to a better place. She probably isn’t a saint at all, but if it feels that way, that’s good enough. Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. WordPress Photo Challenge is … Read more

Weekly Photo Challenge: Resolved

Baby Howdy says: I want to chase horses. I solved it by going under the gate and she put me in the muck cart. Now it must be re-solved. Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to share a photo- I enjoy twisting these macro prompts to share our micro life … Read more

New Year's Day, minus the Happy.

It was New Year’s Eve, and I was listening to a sad radio memorial about the musicians who passed this year. I do the same thing on my farm at year-end; I take a census and count my losses. We lost a wonderful goat this year. Elvis loved flirting with women, sleeping with his twin, … Read more

Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures

I don’t need more than one photo to describe 2012. This one says enough. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”  Marcel Proust      It’s been a great year.   I wouldn’t mind if my photo from 2013 looks just like this.    There’s so much to learn … Read more

Auld Lang Syne from You…

The sun’s out and there isn’t much snow, but nothing’s melting at all. It’s been bitter cold during these days between Christmas and New Year’s and lessons have cancelled all week. I’ve had a little too much time to think. It’s easy to get sentimental this time of year, but I am feeling full-out mushy.  … Read more