No matter how fancy tractors get
No matter what Monsanto makes chemicals capable of
No matter how much irrigation we install on the farm…
Keith and I will still be sitting here doing the same thing his parents did, our grandparents did and our great-grandparents did. Waiting for a storm to blow through and praying that it doesn’t go around us.
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Me, too!
And unfortunately, I live where they go around more times than not.
Yes Jennifer, some things never ever change. And we are so greedy that when it does rain a little we hope the storm backs up and does it again!! Such is the life of a farm girl!! We only want rain though – not too much wind and please no damage!!
Feast or Famine:
Here I sit on the other side of the country watching the blue skies of summer drifting away and pray the rains don’t come for at least couple weeks because once they do – I’ll see nothing but dark gray skies for the next 6 months!
Rain is very welcomed unless you have hay down. There was alot of small rains this year during our hay season. But all in all we were still able to put up some nice hay.
The rains did allow us to harvest the dry land which we did not get last year.
I have always understood how much a farmer relies on rain…but living it is way different!!!
WOW. How’d you manage to capture those – those clouds are incredible!
Jessica,
The clouds WERE really, really dark like that. I just sharpened the photo a bit.
But see how the trees and ground are super-dark? I metered *for* the sky in order to capture the clouds without “blowing them out”.
Just beautiful! Growing up we used to sit on the front porch to listen and watch the storm come over the corn. These pictures remind me of that!
We have been praying for a little less rain this summer! My Aunt and Uncle can’t harvest for anything. It is just so wet! : ( Don’t you love skies like that though. Oh my gosh! Lovely!