Week #27 - Prairie Skies

We have had a lot of active weather this summer. Storms have rolled through across the prairies bringing heavy rain, winds and hail (thankfully we have been spared the latter). 

As a farmer, you always have one eye to they sky, watching for... often wishing for the various conditions that you need for your current crop. 

This stormy weather can bring grief but it also brings beauty of a extraordinary kind! 

As a prairie girl, I think our skies are beautiful no matter what the weather, but throw in some building storms and you have some awesome scenes. 

I can hear your whisper & distant mutter. I can smell your damp on breeze and in the sky. I see the halo of your violence. Storm, I know you are coming. ~ Robert Fanney

Week #1 - Finding Beauty

Wintery branch appears to hold the sun...

A slightly quieter pace over the holiday break allowed me space and time to reflect and refresh... it allowed me to see things with a different lens, fresh eyes. 

Finding beauty in our lives is not hard if we open ourselves to the moments, the sights, smells and joyful interactions from which our lives are woven. 



Our family is blessed to live surrounded by nature. We can have daily connection with the rhythms of the seasons and feel the complex yet simple interdependent relationships humans have with plants and animals first hand.

I challenge you this coming week to seek and find beauty... whether in the city or on the countryside, what is catching your attention these days? 

Every time I open a squash, the patterns of nature amaze me.

Lovely Lily....

Love on four legs!



A beetle has left an intriguing pattern on this log. 

Sleepy winter cornfield sparkling in the sun

The rabbits sleep under our pine tree each
night.... how do I know?

Purple gems

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Spent several days digging up, washing and freezing the last of the beets.

Every time I slice one, I'm amazed at the beauty of each one. Each has its own unique swirl and design that tells a story.

...or perhaps I've spent too much time with beets this week! 

Strutting his stuff...

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Caesar, our resident rooster has grown into quite a fine looking bird... and he knows it. #fullofhimself

Come and sit awhile...

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It's a beautiful day today, sunny skies with a wind to keep the bugs away... a perfect summer day. 

A day to meander and drink in the beauty around us. 

Like the willow chair that Farmer Phil made a few years back becoming one with nature out near the shed.

Wonder...

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In the quiet evening hours, I sit and look and wonder at the beauty that passes so many of us by... 

May you stop, look and drink it all in each day. Food for our souls.

Big skies and colourful fields

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I love this time of year when we are surrounded by the ever changing colours of waving crops. 

Currently, the yellow canola seems to stretch on past the horizon. 

Nature's paint brush

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Last night on the way out to the barn to do the milking, I captured this image. 

It was like nature had taken a golden paint brush and painted the tops of all the trees!

Simply gorgeous! 

Beautiful skies

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Tonight's sunset was another beauty. 

Snow is almost gone too! Full of gratitude for the nature that surrounds us! 

Beauty to start the day...

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This morning's sunrise was beautiful. No more is needed to be said. Enjoy! 

Look around....

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Beautiful shot to end the day, reminds us all to stop and look up, look around and drink in the beauty that all of us are privileged to be surrounded by. 

Regardless of your beliefs about how it came to be created, I'm certainly we can all agree that we live in a world of great beauty and complexity and we can honour that by pausing once in a while to notice what it has to offer.