Talking Animals at Midnight
Just in from the night feed. It's long john weather, my head bandaged with layers of hats and a muffler,...
Severe Weather Warning
It was 78 degrees yesterday. It's late October so the sun is lower in the sky. There was a slight...
Photo Challenge: Satisfaction
The sun leaves just the sky behind, a watery arch over the prairie, and my feet cling to the...
Photo Challenge: Collage
How many times did I ask on a breath and a thought that you consider the moment? Consider joining me...
Caring for the Lead Mare
It was a perfect day. There were just enough clouds to soften the heat. The front gate didn't open once all day...
Photo Challenge: Evanescent
After the bay gelding's leg is doctored and wrapped, I walk the fence line looking at bent posts and hair...
Photo Challenge: The Road Taken.
Dreams are only transparent. On this routine day, let my eyes close in simple praise for ordinary moments of...
Photo Challenge: Against the Odds
Roused by a whisper from a lost distance, through cold glass windows in deserted basements, down wet alleys, past dumpsters...
Photo Challenge: Repurpose
All of us here, we used to be someone else. We each had a plan; it was meant to go...
Climate Change: Not Just Bad for Polar Bears.
Farm kids, like me, learn early that a healthy anxiety about the weather is the subtext of every task--from lambing season, to...
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