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By: Jim Fitzpatrick |
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Email: jim@nunica.com |
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Local Farmer in Polkton Township writes for the Coopersville Observer. |
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Along Brandy Creek By Jim Fitzpatrick
The Coopersville Observer May 3, 2004- - No. 28 |
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By the time late April comes around, the kids’ small black horse has shed his shaggy winter coat. He appears to be two distinctly different creatures in one, depending what the season of the year happens to be. The neighbor fellow across the section is convinced (or at least he says that he is) that two horses are kept here on the farm. He will tell you about the long haired shaggy black horse that he noticed out here in the pasture through this past winter. Then he will go on to describe in detail the sleek short haired black one that he sees these days when he passes by on the road. To ask if he has ever noticed the two of them out to pasture at the same time only brings a smile to his face. Then he drives on without saying a word.
That two-horse pasture, where shaggy black pony braced himself against winter winds, has weeks ago now shed its own coating of drifted snow. The fence posts surrounding it appear to be much taller these days. Cool spring rains have more than once wet down both the land and horse. Warm winds and the longer days of the season have brought on a lush carpet of green. That sleek black gelding is in sharp contrast to the fresh grasses under foot. He spends his days grazing down each day’s new growth with little thought of anything different.
And there is that fellow driving past on the road again. He is pretending not to look in this direction today! |
