Moisture is the life and breath of Montana. Ranching and farming depend upon the life giving liquid that is like the air that allows us to breathe and live. People don't talk about rain or snow but moisture.
Moisture that is stored in the beautiful snow covered peaks, moisture that runs down hill and fills up the streams, ditches and fields. All this "moisture" that we take for granted every time we turn on the tap and flush. On the land it is worth more than one can imagine as the saying goes: "Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting."
In the days before I left, I did as much irrigation as possible, plowed and reseeded a few areas, and then turned the rest over to Mother Nature.
Summer in Montana is green only by the grace of a gift from above.
One of my ditches and the flooding in progress.
Moisture is the life and breath of Montana. Ranching and farming depend upon the life giving liquid that is like the air that allows us to breathe and live. People don't talk about rain or snow but moisture.
Moisture that is stored in the beautiful snow covered peaks, moisture that runs down hill and fills up the streams, ditches and fields. All this "moisture" that we take for granted every time we turn on the tap and flush. On the land it is worth more than one can imagine as the saying goes: "Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting."
In the days before I left, I did as much irrigation as possible, plowed and reseeded a few areas, and then turned the rest over to Mother Nature.
Summer in Montana is green only by the grace of a gift from above.
One of my ditches and the flooding in progress.
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