So it is back to the work grind tomorrow morning. I am staying at the Weaverville Hotel tonight. Tomorrow morning, I will be back working at the clinic here. However, in contemplating the weekend, Saturday, I did spend the afternoon up at the apple farm and here are some random thoughts. The season is certainly changing.....the light has that Autumn golden glow with the dried brown fields of weeds as a background. It even drizzled in the morning which is a rare thing in these parts. I saw a hawk flying above the orchard and had to stop everything to watch it traverse the sky above. I realize another season is coming to a close, and have I made the progress that I am after? This has been a year of focusing on the infrastructure.....gates, the retaining wall; painting and restoring the cabin and of course the relentless search for water, water, water. Nothing can grow in these rugged hills without the sustenance of H2O. Period. We have plenty of sun, earth and soil, clean fresh air, but, water is precious. Nature is generous to yield even a pint. She gives this commodity from the bowels of the earth, drop by drop. The springs flow through the Grace of the Universe. Day and night progress and the tanks fill with yummy water. The timers go off at their prescribed times, and water flows to the trees soaking the ground where the emitters are strewen. Next year it has to be about farming. Enough of this work. What is the point of having the systems in place if the farming doesn't happen and the satisfaction doesn't come from the act of watching fertility ocurr? So, that is the resolution. The coming cycle will be more abundant. Yet, I did pick two bags of Pink Lady Antique Apples. That was a miracle. I want more miracles!
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