I know this may seem weird,  but I like a cup of hot coffee even on a 100 degree day. It's Sunday and so I think it's...

Catchy title today, right? You know James Taylor, yes? (author of Fire and Rain , his first hit in 1968 ) We saw him this wee...

Sandhill Crane  JLynn and the grandies and I went to check cows this morning. As we drove up to the gate, we saw three Sandhill C...

It's been a few years since I've had any chokecherries left on the branches for a batch or two of jelly.   Every year it...

  Little Babies Barn swallows     Big Babies Furruginous Hawks (These two photos courtesy of my DIL, JJo) ...

Bringing ewes and lambs in to the sheep corrals. We made the decision to sell the lamb crop early this year.  Normally, we sel...

Gray clouds above with smoky, brown puffs on the horizon tells the story -- clouds with dry lightning and no rain.  After our Independenc...

 Pronghorn (antelope) buck Lots of new babies on the prairie. How can it possibly be the last day of June already?  I...

This bright fellow is the Evening Grosbeak God sends love notes to me by way of nature --  a beautiful bird,  a feather, ...

Haying has begun.   A few bales, but bales, nonetheless. It will feed livestock.  This is the tractor I drive, and I pull the ...