8 January

Bedlam Farm Journal, Monday, January 8, 2024. Between One Storm And Another

by Jon Katz

I know now that climate change takes away and gives. The skies have never been more beautiful when a storm is gone, and life is coming out and showing itself.

Today, Monday is the start of another week. Some doctor’s appointments, some Mansion, and refugee work. I’m meeting another intellectually disabled Subway worker on Thursday; his name is Nicholas.

I never tire of taking pictures of this beautiful place. One man wrote to say the photos keep him from getting bored by my writing. A compliment, sort of. I’ll take it. It feels like we’ve been into the dark days for months. Beautiful but draining. Life is so much more complicated in the cold.

The morning was icy and cold. Maria kept the path clear and we both worked to clean off the cars.

The dogs know where to go when they come inside – the wood stoves. They are great fans

The sky turned soft and beautiful, soft light in a soft sky

This is what the pasture looked like this morning. The storm was not bad, just cold and nasty.

After the storm, a cool, crisp sky

 

Zip loves the snow, and he has a new command post, a table, and a chair on the back porch. From here, he can soak up the sun and survey the mice and moles skittering under the snow.

 

 

Maria is working every day on her hay twine project, she doesn’t know where it will go but is eager to find out.

3 Comments

  1. I love there photos, especially the the the first one.
    I grew up in Maine, and your snow photos remind me of the winters in Maine. I live in York, Pa, about 20 miles north of the Mason Dixon line. In recent years, we’ve hardly had any snow. This storm that gave us about four inches, was more snow than what we had in the last two years. When first moved here in the early 90’s, we would have much more snow. The latest report today tells us that the world climate in 2023 was hotter than the las thousand years and was 0.2 degrees Celsius higher than the past. How long will it be before Cambridge, NY’s, winters will receive much snow?

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