The picture says it all: This is how my days have been. Muddy. They say we have three seasons here in the Willamette Valley: Winter, Thaw...

No, that is not a spelling error. I put the 'K' in there on purpose. Oktober is simply the German version of our 'October', ...

It rained last night. I'm not talking about a small sprinkling either. Or a shower, or a "raining-cats-and-dogs" sort of rain....

And it came with a bang. This is a glimpse of Oregon's famed "liquid sunshine" that we got this afternoon to herald the changi...

It was cold outside this morning... The chill penetrated both my fleece sweater, and my Carharrt coat, as I walked to the barn. The goats lo...

 Slowly, things are beginning to change here in the Willamette Valley.... We've been joking that summer has "finally" started,...

Suppose We did our Work Like the Snow, quietly, quietly, Leaving Nothing out. ~Wendell Berry

 In the past, it always seemed like the trees would never stop dropping leaves. As soon as you thought you had raked up every rogue leaf, th...