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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘seasons’
If I could be a season…
Posted in Photos, Musings, tagged Wildflowers, Veeder Ranch, North Dakota, Nature, photos, photography, writing, Home, life, musings, seasons, pets, weather, spring, ranch life, outdoors on May 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
It was a day like this…
Posted in Photos, Poetry, tagged Veeder Ranch, North Dakota, Nature, photos, ranch, poetry, family, writing, Home, life, musings, kids, seasons, pets, weather, fun, spring, ranch life, outdoors on March 12, 2012 | 4 Comments »
It was this kind of day a hug and kiss kind of day a put your pole in a puddle and fish kind of day You ran down the big hill for fun basked in the warm pre-spring sun It was a big stick kind of day a muddy crick kind of day a ketchup [...]
Are you warm yet?
Posted in Photos, Musings, tagged Veeder Ranch, North Dakota, Nature, ranch, photography, Home, musings, seasons, animals, winter, weather, ranch life on February 10, 2012 | 9 Comments »
Uff da, it’s kinda cold here in Fargo. It’s normal for February, but with all of the 50 degree temperatures we’ve had in January, we’ve been spoiled and confused about what season we’re living in. Which makes today’s -32 windchill feels a little mean. Yes, today in Fargo it’s winter indeed and I am happy [...]
Magic frost…
Posted in Photos, Ranch Life, tagged frost, Home, horses, life, Nature, North Dakota, photography, seasons, Veeder Ranch, winter on February 6, 2012 | 29 Comments »
A glorious weekend settled in here at the ranch, confirming my theory that everything’s better with frosting. So it was my delight to wake up and find that on Saturday morning everything was frosted. Finally. This is my favorite winter weather phenomenon, but with the unseasonably warm temperatures we’ve been enjoying I haven’t seen much [...]
On a green January day…
Posted in Musings, Photos, tagged Home, January, musings, Nature, North Dakota, outdoors, photography, ranch life, seasons, Veeder Ranch, winter, writing on January 30, 2012 | 11 Comments »
Well, we are nearing the end of January and outside my window the sun is trying desperately to peek through the blanket of clouds and I feel, at 45 degrees, at any minute this brown, damp landscape is going to erupt in colors of green and orange and pink and purples. What a weird winter [...]
This year’s story…
Posted in Musings, Ranch Life, tagged Veeder Ranch, North Dakota, Nature, family, horses, writing, Home, life, musings, adventure, Love, seasons, animals, New Year, ranch life, reflection on December 29, 2011 | 29 Comments »
The year is winding down here and it is doing so quite nicely. This morning there is a little fog that has settled in over the barnyard, coating the grass and trees with a thin layer of frost. I am waiting for the sky to lighten a bit before taking a trip into town, just [...]
A Cowboy Christmas reminder…
Posted in Ranch Life, tagged North Dakota, ranch, family, photography, writing, Home, life, musings, seasons, winter, weather, Cowboys, holidays, Christmas, ranch life on December 22, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Well, it looks a little like a Charlie Brown Christmas around here, but husband and I did it. We got a tree…or something that looks like it might have come off of a tree somewhere. And it finally smells a little less like the small brown stinky present the pug left on my carpet last [...]
Three hundred and fifty-some days a year…
Posted in Musings, Ranch Life, tagged Home, life, musings, Nature, North Dakota, photography, photos, ranch life, seasons, sunrises, sunsets, writing on December 13, 2011 | 14 Comments »
We are honing in pretty close to a new year and ringing it in by, you know, bringing in a new house. It seems to be a pattern for us, making big changes at the end of the year. Three years ago we closed on our first home and spent the next two years renovating [...]
Turkey, ping pong, a cheeseball and memories…
Posted in Family, Musings, tagged cooking, family, holiday, life, Love, North Dakota, photography, ranch, ranch life, seasons, Thanksgiving, writing on November 29, 2011 | 12 Comments »
I hope the holiday weekend was good to everyone. I hope the sun rose bright and warm and flooded your kitchen with streams of light while you or your momma or your gramma or pops or sister or mother-in-law basted the turkey and rolled up their sleeves, saying something like “whew, it’s warm in here [...]
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