Fall is coming…each morning as I walk out to the stable, I
see that Orion has inched up over the eastern tree line just a bit more. The
horses and goats are growing out thicker coats, getting ready for cooler days.
Sour gums are showing small, hanging berries and red leaves, and the sassafras leaves
are turning yellow at the lobes. Evening’s light is growing shorter, while the
morning’s darkness lingers on long past my awakening.
I love this time of year. It’s all of subtle changes….and it
brings sentimentality to the summers end and I think back…
A fallow year on the farm…Lou’s eye and Lymes disease…seven
new chicks…harvesting honey…bluebirds and grackles…rain, and more rain…mud…digging
potatoes…broken ribs…Martha.…strawberries…poison ivy and chiggers… baby sitting
a friend’s chicken flock…pulling garlic…first time riding English style, leaving
my western boots at home…Lou ambling over to hang his head on my shoulder, as
close to a hug as can be…waiting for Cherokee Purples to ripen…discovering the
Stable Song by Gregory Alan Isakov, a farmer/ musician…Zero 7…Margot….our vet,
Tanya, coming to the barn at 11pm for Lou, more than once…Paddy waiting for me at
the fence corner each morning…losing my religion…peas and eggplants out growing
the hoop house…first summer without any kids at home…a rained out concert…letting
the back yard grow into a meadow…watching
kids that visited touch a horses nose for the first time…Topsy…Zip running laps
in the pasture, kicking his heels at the wind…friends who showed up just when I needed to break out of my silence.
Overall, it was a good summer, but I am looking forward to
fall’s slower pace and maybe, if I am lucky, napping in the hammock for an
afternoon.
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