In thinking about Cardinal’s monthly photo challenge, I anticipated doing what I did last year by going back through the month’s photos and trying my best to not include every single one of them in my review because 1) there is generally so much that happens each month and 2)…
Well, I’ve gone and done it again! I’ve let time get away from me again! And so, with just a few days left in the year, I’ve decided to play a bit of catch up by combining my monthly reviews of November and December into one Changing Seasons post. Lucky…
October marks, for me, the official beginning of Fall. The slide from warm days and comfortable evenings quickly gives way to bipolar weather patterns (hot, toasty days followed by very cold nights…torrential downpours with hail and flooding, followed by crispy dry weeks on end) and, inevitably, the first fire of…
If you’re keeping track, you might have noticed that I skipped my monthly reflection for August…and you might even notice that my reflection for September is a full two weeks late… Geez… Yeah, the past few months have been a whirlwind of work, property and animal upkeep, and…oh yeah! the…
July brought with it some much needed rain and many, many partly cloudy days, which may not seem like a big deal to many of you, but it a very big deal here in the high desert of northern New Mexico! Here we’re used to drought conditions and sweltering heat…
Maybe it’s the excitement of summer being officially upon us…with all of it’s hot sweaty-ness, fun potential, long days and short nights…but it’s flying by at a rapid pace and it’s all I can do to slow myself down a bit to enjoy the moments, the flashes in time, before…
April is a month so full of excitement, plans, ideas, (later than normal) seed starting, and full on Spring Fever. It’s also a month full of weed pulling, garden plotting and re-plotting, and frost warnings. I find myself intermittently holding my breathe and practicing deep breathing a lot in April.…
You guys, I cannot even begin to explain to you just how excited I am about our new house and the amazing property it sits on! It almost seems unreal that everything we’ve been working for and planning for and dreaming about has manifested in such a wonderful rental! So,…