We all work under a sky. It is my luck that I have an enormous sky. My mother is the sky.
Hard work is not a bad thing. A little winter cold is not a bad thing.
And a little bit of hunger is a tonic for a body. Hunger makes you want more. Better. It makes me fight.
Some pain in the muscles is a good thing. A reward. A knowledge. An aspiring thing.
And all under a prairie sky. My mother.
A sky as wide and strong as a tiny daughters father from her slanting sleepy eyes. A sky as fragile and transient as the bubbles in the bowl of the finest champagne flute.
A sky with all the colours of heat in the cold of a prairie winter. I am lucky.
I hope you have a lovely day.
Love celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
56 responses to “Prairie Sky”
I always thought the sky seemed higher up and further away on the prairie 🙂
They don’t call the prairies Big Sky Country for nothing! It is beautiful. I always missed the ocean when I lived in the midwest, though.
My sky is a different sky — the sky of bayous and bays — but I love working under it, and you’ve described the joys well. Sometimes people say (though not always in so many words) “You’re old. You need to get inddors, work in an office, or even stop working.” I just smile.
Beautiful Sky ♥♥♥
Beautiful pictures, so full of the colour of nature and of God’s creation, planning and colour ideas. He paints a good picture , does my friend… Your words so poetic and so descriptive of such beauty..the two go well together under your Prairie Sky xxxx
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 1:12 PM, thekitchensgarden wrote:
> Cecilia Mary Gunther posted: “We all work under a sky. It is my luck that > I have an enormous sky. My mother is the sky. Hard work is not a bad thing. > A little winter cold is not a bad thing. And a little bit of hunger is a > tonic for a body. Hunger makes you want more. ” >
I think you must get skies like ours; huge, brilliant and freighted with vast and almost solid clouds, from crisp, glittering white to leaden and black. I can feel my heart and head expanding under a sky like that. I can sit and watch the wide spaces and huge skies and feel the peace seeping in through my eyes. I love that you praise and enjoy the feeling of cold, of hunger, of fatigued muscles. You’re one of the most alive people I know!
I become more alive myself, just visiting. Such a blessing! Thank you Miss C. You are generous with your life.
What a beautiful sentiment and gorgeous photographs as usual. “Life is short. If there ever was a moment to follow your passion and do something that matters to you, that moment is now.”
I live by that and believe strongly that if we all did, the world would be a better place. We are lucky to have found our happiness.
I find myself drawn to the sky as well but my words are not as eloquent as yours. Thanks for the beautiful images and words today.
Beautiful skies, love the colours, beautiful words and descriptions. The Kiwi weather vane looks right at home 🙂 Laura
A lovely day to you, too.
Living, working, and playing under open sky is important to me. We drove through the hills and forests of West Virginia recently and saw glimpses of homes tucked away in the valleys. I would never be happy not seeing a sunrise or sunset from my home.
Your prose and your photography are quite poetic this morning. Here we say Mother Earth and Father Sky, and both are nurturing. But then as my mind wanders… I contemplate these earthquakes (from fracking in Oklahoma) and violent spring storms – kind of makes me wonder about what Mother and Father are trying to tell us at times? 🙂
Yes all mythology except mine has the woman underneath the great awesome power of the male sky. Not for me though. My mother has always been upwards.
I have a great fascination for the sky, especially the sunrises and sunsets. I feel privileged to be able to see both first flash and last flash and to watch the progression of the sun south to north and north to south along the horizon.
Oh, how I love, and miss, the prairie sky. Interestingly enough, I posted today about Minnesota skylines.
same Sky as here in New Mexico….we all stand on the Rim of the planet…can you see me waving????