We’ve had a couple beautiful days at the ranch lately. Things are starting to blossom up around here, making way for the butterflies and bees and bugs. The birds have found their way home and so have the pair of geese that live in the dam outside our new house. I’ve been spending my evenings strolling [...]
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If I could be a season…
Posted in Musings, Photos, tagged Home, life, musings, Nature, North Dakota, outdoors, pets, photography, photos, ranch life, seasons, spring, Veeder Ranch, weather, Wildflowers, writing on May 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
If I could pick a prairie bouquet…
Posted in Photos, Poetry, tagged animals, Home, Nature, North Dakota, outdoors, photography, poetry, Veeder Ranch, wilderness, Wildflowers, writing on May 14, 2012 | 19 Comments »
If I could pick for you a bouquet from the windswept hills of spring, from under budding oak groves, and along the babbling creek… I’d pick you bluebells for your table, and sweet peas for your mom, the mist from early mornings, a meadowlark’s sweet song. I’d throw in green, green grasses and the chokecherry’s [...]
A good day to be a horse
Posted in Musings, Ranch Life, tagged animals, Home, horses, life, musing, Nature, North Dakota, outdoors, photography, ranch life, Veeder Ranch, weather, writing on May 3, 2012 | 9 Comments »
I like it when the clouds do this. It makes me feel like I am not so small after all, like I could reach up and pluck one out of the sky, put it on an ice cream cone and go walking through the pastures, taking licks and bites of the sweet fluff as I [...]
Flannel shirts and wild plum blossoms
Posted in Musings, Photos, Ranch Life, tagged family, Home, horses, life, Love, memories, Nature, North Dakota, nostalgia, outdoors, photography, ranch life, seasons, spring, Veeder Ranch, writing on April 23, 2012 | 9 Comments »
When I grow up I want to be the kind of woman who lets her hair grow long and wild and silver. When I’m grown I hope I remember to keep my flannel shirts draped over chairs, hanging in the entryway and sitting on the seat of the pickup where they are ready and waiting [...]
Inside Old Houses
Posted in Community, Musings, tagged change, community, Home, life, musings, North Dakota, old houses, photography, ranch life, writing on April 16, 2012 | 19 Comments »
We live on gravel roads that stretch like ribbons along pasture land dotted with black cattle and a patchwork quilt of grasses and crops. As we kick up dust beneath our pickup tires heading out to a chore or to meet up with a neighbor, we take for granted how these roads were built. Why [...]
From the top of the hill…
Posted in Musings, Photos, Ranch Life, tagged childhood, family, Home, horses, life, memories, musings, Nature, North Dakota, photography, ranch life, Veeder Ranch, writing on March 19, 2012 | 13 Comments »
Sometimes, when the day is coming to a slow close and my head is spinning with worry and lists, schedules and a pile of things that must wait until tomorrow and the dishes from a dinner of meat and potatoes sits waiting to be taken care of on the table, I slip on my boots [...]
Multiple Personality March
Posted in Ranch Life, tagged animals, dogs, Home, horses, life, March, Nature, North Dakota, pets, photography, weather, winter on March 7, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Ahhh, March. You bring us one month closer to the promise of spring with your wild and unpredictable snow storms, your extreme warmth, your puddles and mud, little bit of rain, thawed out cow plops, cloudy and sunny and then cloudy again skies. All of your personalities keep us on our toes and undecided about [...]
A winter breath in Theodore Roosevelt National Park…
Posted in Community, Musings, tagged adventure, animals, bison, hiking, Home, landscape, life, mule deer, musings, National Park, Nature, North Dakota, photography, photos, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, wilderness, wildlife, winter, writing on February 29, 2012 | 16 Comments »
I took a moment on a regular weekday morning, a morning when much of the state was preparing for one of our first winter storms of the season, to find some magic in the winter. I knew just where to go to find it. A place that was set aside just for us when we [...]
The animals of winter…
Posted in Ranch Life, tagged animals, cattle, dogs, Home, horses, life, musings, Nature, North Dakota, photography, ranch, ranch life, snow, Veeder Ranch, winter on February 27, 2012 | 12 Comments »
Well the wind blew winter in this weekend and I breathed in the frozen air, a kind of sigh of relief that the season didn’t skip us altogether. Nope, the snow and the cold made it just in time to keep us wondering if there will be lions or lambs trotting in for the grand [...]
Dear Husband…
Posted in Family, Musings, tagged family, husbands, Marriage, photography, Relationships, valentines day, Veeder Ranch, writing on February 13, 2012 | 17 Comments »
Dear Husband, Good morning. As I write this I imagine you on your way to work in your red pickup, your warm cap pulled down over your ears, a little of your scruffy hair escaping out the sides. Or maybe you’re there already, digging into the jobs you’re good at. I lost track of how [...]
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