Afternoon Walk

Here’s some immensely exciting news for you! I went for a walk this afternoon! In sunshine…..and the proof is here in the spindly shadows of this hay rake:

Trilling high in the treetops was a band of redwing blackbirds. They haven’t yet descended to their roadside fenceposts.

The ground was solid enough for venturing on foot to the sandhill hayfield. At one point I looked down and saw this portion of a ceramic White Crown fruit jar lid---a relic from long ago. Several years ago I found a complete, unbroken White Crown lid in the field and it just so happened that shortly before that I had purchased a lidless White Crown canning jar…..at a thrift store, or a garage sale, or on eBay, I don’t remember exactly, but now I had a lid to go with it!

These next three photos were taken from the hayfield, with the zoom all the way on, thus they are a bit blurry. See the buildings in the background…..they are new, erected on the site of one of the farmsteads destroyed by last May’s F5 tornado.

Here’s another place that was destroyed……sheds and a house have been rebuilt:

Shown in this next scene is the farm I grew up on, several miles away. Its looks entirely different than it did before the tornado. There formerly was a round barn there and lots of red buildings, surrounded by a windbreak of trees. All that is gone now---a farm’s history down the drain, which is fine---the main thing being that no one was hurt or killed. The shed and bins are new since the storm. My brother had the shed built extra-strong and he’s in the process of building a concrete house, also.

And lastly, for good measure…….a junky conglomeration for your viewing pleasure (or displeasure):

Hopefully, there is sunshine where you are this weekend!