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Spring has returned.
The Earth is like a child that knows poems.~Rainer Maria Rilke
I shall admit I didn’t take this photo. I am not out and about this early in the morning, especially on a cold March morning at 7am in the vineyard.
However the farmer has been out over an hour already, thus he took this photo.
The vines have just been pruned back, grass is mown and the prunings have been chopped and tilled into the soil.
Just about a month ago~
And another growing season in the vineyards begins…
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
Beatrix Potter
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Oh it looks so lovely, reminds me of growing up on the farm, hard work but the joys of a California farm when the woke is done are amazing. Hmm might make a nice place for a resident artist to winter at
in the barn maybe.
Hope your starting to feel a bit better my dear. Sending happy Sunday hugs
Always
Benjamin
thanks, benjamin, i’ve been ok… going to doc tomorrow and have LOTS to say! as you might imagine after he deserted me over 2 weeks ago in one fine mess. i’ve had to stop everything since the diverticulitis. now onto the DMSA i’m thinking. be well, young man.
Thank you, will do. Good luck at the doctors.
thanks
Oh, I’m going to agree with Benjamin–what a joyful task when it’s completed! And the farmer did an excellent job with the photo.
What an amazing thing, to chop away at, turn under and ready for another year of abundance. Oh, and what a lovely before shot as well. Hard to believe it’s the same vineyard, I had to do a triple take at the spring ready photo. Well done, Mr. Farmer! Springtime has truly come to your neck of the woods. Let the warmth and sunshine flood it and fill it with wonderful greens. Oh, I do so love a working farm.
And I’m glad for you and himself. (this is where I mutter about the 3-7″ of snow to come today?) The weather here is a bit…..unstable? LOL Ah well, we need every bit of moisture we can get! And we’ll have the opportunity to till and furrow and plant soon enough.
Ohhhh…I’m soooo ready to play in dirt myself. LOL
Hoping that ‘feeling better’ bit is finding you–spring has sprung! Time for that change in the season and circumstances—past time, I think.
*hugs*
Awesome quotes, by the way……as always.
farming seems glorified work in my estimation. in reality, it’s never-ending battles of weed and varmits!!
sorry you still have that blasted snow! my goodness it never ends… we too are having a drought, wondering why we don’t get rain. haven’t had anything really since october! long time… spring is one of my most productive times of the year from way back when so i am enjoying puttering-wishing i was doing a bit more than but… in the courtyard watching farmer prune and prune… and prune and… really i have too many roses and lavenders! but there are worse things. xo
Gooood morning Linda~
WOW…the before and after photos are like two completely different worlds, yet I find both images beautiful. One, barren and sleeping. The other, coming alive with life and color.
And it’s ironic that you said it’s cold there because we’re getting such warm temps presently. However, earlier in the week was freezing and snowing.
Hope you’re feeling well and strong, dear friend.
Wishing you a beautiful Sunday!
(((((((((( You )))))))))))
xoxoxoxoxo
hi ron, yes it is a drastic change isn’t it? no snow there, how weird… we need rain as i told mel. not feeling well or strong, my dear, but someday is my hope. ready to give my doc an earfull however. xxx
Wow, what a lovely morning view…or anytime view for that matter!
And I just love the Beatrix Potter quote.
me too, and thanks for popping in!
Thanks for sharing these lovely pictures of the progression of the vineyards. No wonder we love the wines produced in Sonoma so much. The grape photo is gorgeous.
Best wishes for the best of health. Love ya, Rlte
Thanks for the beautiful progression pictures. No wonder we love Sonoma wines so much. Beautiful grape pic. Have a lovely Sunday and feel better. Love,Rlte
hi dear, hope you got your wp issues squared away. you can see they showed up here fine. thank you for liking… glad you enjoy wines from sonoma too. go sonoma is what we say around here and boo to napa.
Ah, the moments granted by your own seeing eye that take you away….
thank you much….i’m so glad you enjoyed your visit. xx
Beautiful and comforting. I feel that I have been here before or some place similar.
thank you for your kind comment as always. you might have been!
The farmer is a pretty good photographer, isn’t he? I hope the coming growing season is a good one.
Both quotes you chose were wonderfully appropriate. I’ve sometimes wondered if Beatrix Potter was as moody as me.
xoxo
yes he is… in his younger days, he was quite into it but now has little inclination and i have to throw it[camera] at him and beg.
i love this beatrix quote. i recently found it on pinintest, that giant site with the potential to waste your entire life before you realize it. but there were good quotes…. and a photo of me that i am now needing to charge her with copyright infringement. i do clearly state…. blah blah…stealing art is one thing, a photo of oneself quite another really stupid human trick. sigh, not very invested however, a good thing. more important things to focus on like chewing out my doc. i’ve been holding off thinking about it til now but now he’s back and tomorrow he is so blessed as to have an appt. with me, well, you might imagine…
i do think she was, must have been moody or at least the solitary type. and i think you and i are much the same. xox
hello loves…
I cannot type comments tonight due to pain and headache so will in the morning. please KNOW your comments hold me up and help keep me going. NEVER THINK i DON’T APPRECIATE THEM!!! see you in on the morrow. XO
We’ll all be getting ‘NO OBLIGATION’ avatars just so you understand we truly are encouraging your rest and healing. :-/
Rest, heal…come up with good one liners for that sailing doc that’ll be tending to you.
The good news for this morning is NO SNOW for us, despite the hype of 7″ they promised us. *rolling eyes* I don’t think they understand how much the Big Guy likes to mess with me. LOL I’m sure I’m the source of amusement. (bit egocentric on my part, but there you have it!) And even though it’s gray, I believe the ice and snow actually might consider melting a bit! Which means that maybe….MAYbe spring is coming? *sigh* One can hope–since it’s found you–that’s it’s moved this way?
*laughing* I’m hoping!! I’m a hoping kinda gal.
Which is why I’m believing things WILL be getting different for you.
So REST. Don’t MAKE me put my head together with Ron and come up with an avatar just for you! LOL
It’s probably be a dancing troll with his photo in the middle of it’s wild hairdo singing We ain’t got no…….lalala…obligations… ROFL–you know how creative he is with those photo programs!
heehee that’s rather a cool idea…. dare you!
This has been a gift for my winter-weary soul. i’m physically aching for green. Just took the dog for his morning walk along the creek trails….. we walked about a mile on 3 inches of humpy, bumpy ice everywhere. i haven’t taken the crampons off my boots since before Christmas… it’s been a ‘mild’ winter – which for northern Alberta means freeze, snow, thaw, freeze, snow, thaw ad infinitum. and the result is that everything is a solid block of treacherous ice. undaunted, i’m transporting my grow op materials to the lovely old house bought last summer, to set everything up to begin seedlings in the big south facing porch early in April. I found a little old wooden rocking chair at the local ReStore which will live there with them. i’ll sit in the sunny porch with my little green babies sipping a glass of Sonoma Valley wine and think of you, imagining i’m your neighbor, just down the road (and i am….. but it’s a very L……O……N…..G road).
We love your posts, but we love you too…. no obligation to entertain us. Take care of YOU.
walking on turf like that-if you can call it that-sounds very treacherous…not what i would do likely…. but must be invigorating minus the frost bite. and dog’s frost bitten paws…
i don’t even know what crampons are!!!!
love your lovely descriptions of your house, your rocker and green babies growing happily in a sunny window. poor susan, i feel so sorry she is being again-i think-new windowed and cannot grow her vines but haven’t told her yet since not getting out much. lovely lovely to be into spring, i am making the most of a strong man’s back this year since i am as weak as a kitten and grouchy as a bothered badger. i will look forward to seeing your lovely garden and will say one thing for cold climates- PEONIES! and yes please do sip that sonoma valley wine…helps a bit. and i love you too. xox
Two very beautiful photos of your land and a lovely contrast! I am nowhere but in bed at 7 am, even in the best of health.
Like the Beatrix Potter quote as well.
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