Rainy June morning

Rainy, snowy June morning

We woke up to this beautiful view yesterday morning after 1 1/2″ of rain the night before!

Things are happening at Cream of the West today…we have a group of graduate students from the University of Montana visiting. They’re on an eight day adventure, touring central and eastern Montana studying a diverse group [...]

Spring Rainfall

As a newly-minted farm wife, I used to be faintly amused when my farmer-husband took spring rainfall—more specifically, the lack of it– so personally. I’d watch him turn into a Glum Norwegian as the rain clouds passed over us to dump on the neighbor’s fields. Now that I’m a 13-year farming veteran, I too have become [...]

Buckwheat – Montana Style

Whitetail deer in wheat field.

Richard in his beautiful wheat field.

Richard’s started harvesting our spring wheat which, thanks to plentiful rain and no hail, stands hip-high and golden.  He took the camera along this morning and captured a shot which gave a whole new definition to BuckWheat!  Maybe that should be a new Cream of [...]