Category Archives: Nature

Something Beyond the Cold

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Doc Arnett

Sometimes, the changes of life turn something once held for comfort into something that feels more like affliction. Continue reading →

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A Brush of Wings

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Doc Arnett

There are evidences other than sight that lead us to some of the greatest wonders of this life, a world unseen speaking to us in the silent brushing of soft wings and a sensing of a wind that is not of this realm. Continue reading →

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A Small Inconvenience

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Doc Arnett

A few more mornings of hauling water bucket by bucket and I will have to re-evaluate my preferences. Continue reading →

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After the Front

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Doc Arnett

To the east, just above the ridge that runs through Wathena, the last edge of three days’ of clouds forms a thin slate bed. Above that, a dull red lightens into pink, gives way to a pale hint of blue that stretches up and meets the passing darkness of night rising into day.
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Shadow Boxing

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Doc Arnett

Last night’s hard freeze followed by this morning’s breeze is sending leaves falling to the ground like cereal shaken slowly from a box held high above the bowl. Continue reading →

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Long Lessons

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Doc Arnett

I rise slowly in the slight light of a half-moon shining above the thin clouds that drift solemnly toward the east. The breeze that has pushed in with colder air keeps the grass in the pasture bare of frost. Continue reading →

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A Single Shelter

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Doc Arnett

Fringed with the dark red of autumn’s ending, its cluster of leaves holds thick enough that the horses still seek its shelter and hold to their spot as if tied there. Continue reading →

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A Strong Drawing

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Doc Arnett

Autumn colors were barely past their peak as Dale and Betty drove us around and up and down the graveled hills and curves. Continue reading →

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Hayloft-Part I

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Doc Arnett

At the beginning of the winter season, the summer stacking of a few thousand sixty-pound bales of alfalfa nearly filled the space of the hayloft in the stock barn on our Todd County dairy farm. Continue reading →

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Autumn Geldings

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Doc Arnett

They lift their heads at the same time, small streams of water draining from their lips, silver in the sunlight, diamonds rippling through the air toward earth, drawn back to their source. Continue reading →

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