I’ll Have to Use My Words

With a camera on the blink, and no photos being taken I realize just how much I rely on photos for this blog.  Photos save you all from the blah, blah, blah.  Not much changes here anyway, calves are due any day, the weather has finally gotten back to normal (wet – big sigh), grass is finally growing at an acceptable rate, etc., etc.

These photos were taken about two weeks ago, as you can see the grass is growing pretty slowly due to our dry late winter and spring.  The sun was welcome for the garden and soil working, but not for the grass.  It was starting to look like late July here soil-wise.  Conversations with other farmers confirmed the same.  Berry farmers irrigating in early May, grain growers wishing for a drenching rain to give their newly seeded crops a boost.

In  my pastures seeing seed heads so early in May was worrisome.

The seed heads were signaling stress from the lack of rain.

I am so glad we finally are receiving the rain we sorely needed.  Now we wait – for calves and for growing grass.