End of the Year!

The year quickly winds down and I think about how much has transpired.  I have laughed and cried and loved and  been pissed off.  Every year these things happen without fail.  In 2010, however, I got to meet so many wonderful, inspiring people through my blogs.  I only hope I can continue this great adventure in 2011!

Visit G-Man to read more end of the year 55s.

Leap hole heartedly into the new year, and

have a head-butting great 2011!

 

2010-the Year in Review

It’s Alphabe-Thursday time again.  This week it’s all about the new year, or the old year if you want to reflect on the past  Be sure to visit  Jenny Matlock’s blog for more linked posts.

Eden Hills is imagined into reality

Buying the farm after three closings

Zipping over hills in the Ranger

Family fun making wine

Starting a farm blog

Expanding my goat herd

Facebook:  a networking tool

Millie

Starting a second blog for my goat

Trying new recipes

Photographing everything

Tiling the pasture–extreme landscaping

Making goat milk soap

Learning how to use a glue gun

Starting a third blog for my sanity

It’s what you’re reading right now

Learning so much from nature

Too many good-byes to loved ones

Remembering good times through the sadness

Meeting new friends in Blogland

Living the life that I love to the fullest

Fearing nothing and embracing adventure

The next year looks even better!

New Year’s good wishes to all

You and your visits are appreciated!

 

Snow Bird

snow bird clinging to the fence

looks for a bite to eat

the long dead weeds are

happy to share a seed

a long cold winter isn’t

daunting to the little snow bird

sitting upon the white ground

shielded from the bitter wind

peace resides in her breast

in this frozen field of plenty

Be sure to stop by One Shot Poetry to read some of the greatest poets on the Internet.  Write your own poem and link up to join in the fun.

My Best Shots

We’ve had some beautiful frozen fog lately, and I couldn’t resist taking some pictures.  I think my favorite is this one of the pine tree.

After all the frosty, foggy weather, we had a beautiful day, so I took the opportunity to go out and enjoy taking pictures in the barnyard.  I’m not sure these are my best shots of the year, but they are some that I like from today.  The geese are unbelievably photogenic.

Bob, what more can I say.  He’s either goofy or posing perfectly.  Today was a posing day.

It just wouldn’t be me if I didn’t have a goat in a picture post, so here’s Muffin happily chewing her cud.

As always, my pictures are SOOC.  The only exception would be occasional cropping.  Maybe editing should be one of my New Year’s resolutions.

Be sure to visit Holly at Perceptive Perspectives for more of the year’s best shots.

Nature Celebrates

Dressed in her purest white,

Nature celebrates the turn

of another new season.

Joyful winter is here at last.

While most of the land rests

beneath a blanket of snow,

the conifer doesn’t give in

but wears her festive green

adorned with a veil of white.

Be sure to visit Jingle’s Poetry Potluck for many poems for the theme Celebrations and Festivities.

To My Son

charity to me:

loving and caring for you,

the child that I love.

It’s been a long time since my boy looked like this.  It’s been a long journey.  This is linked to Haiku Heights.  The theme this week is charity.

Holiday 55

The day has arrived that brings me great cheer!

Not because Christmas Eve is drawing near,

but because it’s the day all the kids are out of here

and I don’t return to work until next year!

I can stay up late and partake a holiday beer.

To all, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

G-Man is so devoted as a host that he’s still game for Friday Flash 55!  Write a story in exactly 55 words and let G-Man know.

Candles at Christmas

There is a long tradition of fire around Christmas time.  The Yule log was burned to bring good fortunes in the new year.  Candles were burned to invite the sun back with their cheerful flames.

Later, candles were lit to represent the coming of Jesus.  They were used to decorate homes and trees before being replaced by electric lights.  Blessings to all, no matter what holiday you celebrate.

This is my contribution to Jenny Matlock’s Alphabe-Thursday where the theme is holiday blessings.

I am also linking this to Beth’s You Capture at I Should Be Folding Laundry where the theme is Holiday Magic or Lights.

Greatness

I was a child reading books,

often fantasy of elves and unicorns;

magic wands, spells and potions;

clerics who wielded powerful spells to heal.

That is what I desired–a world where magic existed.

I dreamt of a world where I could

heal people with the wave of a wand.

The touch of my hand would heal a broken heart

as easily as it brushes tears away.

I could envision myself

as a powerful magical healer.

I devoured books and fed my mind

with dreams of great accomplishments,

causing unicorns to dance with me and

worlds to be created within my mind,

waiting for me to release them into reality.

Instead, I went to school day in and day out

and watched television and daydreamed.

The spellbooks were changed to texts and

my wand became a pencil for solving algebraic equations.

Eventually,  I forgot my daydreams and grew up,

yet sometimes I felt within the very

core of my bones, that I was destined for greatness.

At those times, I remembered the desire to place my

hands on another to allow a magical power

to flow into them and cure their wounds,

physical and emotional and spiritual.

I read books, metaphysical and spiritual,

and learned that I can truly heal another at

the cell level using only the energy I

focus and charge with the intention

of my loving, healing mind and heart.

Perfecting this skill requires

meditation and focus and devotion.

My life left little time for this discipline.

Instead I changed diapers and did laundry

and washed the dishes.  Even though

I felt destined for greatness, the

mundane tasks of life kept me busy,

and left me only with renewed daydreams

that I still hang on to today.

I am linking this poem to week #25 of One Shot Wednesday.  Be sure to visit for some of the greatest poets on the web.

Stillness

Our thoughts are constantly

coming fast and furious,

bringing thoughts that bother us.

We relive old hurts–the lost

loves that broke our heart.

We remember the deaths of loved

ones and feel that loss anew.

We worry about the future and

what we did and said yesterday.

Stillness of the mind, however,

erases the worry, pain and sorrow.

The absence of thought creates

a clean slate, pure and innocent.

Within that perfectly still mind,

we find peace, comfort and wisdom.

Our meditation becomes a

a natural healing experience.

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Linked to:

One Single Impression:  stillness

Poetry Potluck:  Reflections, Interpretations, and Musings