Last week I had an amazing experience while riding home with Sophie after her violin lesson just outside of Boulder. Sophie is turning 18 next week, so naturally she wants to drive as much as possible…and being a passenger has freed me up to enjoy the scenery. On the way home as we passed the green fields and farms, I suddenly realized there was a team of draft horses pulling a mowing rig in a field! Holy Moly! I rushed home, grabbed my camera, and drove back. I stayed for about a half hour and photographed 2 teams of draft horses who were circling the field and mowing the hay. The sky was blue, the mountains were green and the snowy peaks were shining in the afternoon sun. It was perfect!
Since my traveling days are over for awhile, I’ve been itching to get out and take photos again. Today I went through these photos to see what I got. This week the mountains are hazy with smoke from fires in Southwest Colorado and Arizona. We can no longer see those sharp snowy peaks beyond our green foothills. Boy was I lucky, and I am so glad I went home for the camera!
I called my mom to tell her about what I photographed. She has been in lockdown in her nursing home for 3 months now. As I described the scene in the field, she started to remember a story from her childhood. When she was a kid she lived on a farm in Oregon and went to a one room schoolhouse. She would ride her horse to school bareback, and park her mare in a field across the dirt road from the school. She said, “It’s a lot easier to ride a horse bareback than with a saddle – you can feel the horse and the horse can feel you too.”
So I started to think about making hay while the sun shines, grabbing a camera when you see something amazing, riding a horse bareback instead of walking, and making the best of what every day brings…and for many of us it has been sewing masks or perhaps now working on long overdue quilt projects while the virus has hit the Pause Button in our lives.
It is a blessing to find the good in each day, and find gratitude for those gifts.
I wish you all a day filled with blessings.
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana and Paul
* The photo collage above includes a photo by Luana, plus fabrics currently in stock at eQuilter.
