Any gardener worth his/her compost can relate to what I'm saying. When your garden, which you've nurtured for months goes down, first you want to cry though you may not.Then you get mad. "I'm just going to let it all go. What's the point? It's not worth it." You may allow a few tears but then you remember the point.Before you know it you put the tragedy behind you and think ahead to fall planting, lettuce, spinach, chard and peas. There's plenty of extra space.


Like these 6' tall sunflowers which withstood the full assault, you just shrug and present a sunny face.

Text and pictures © 2009 Mona E. Dunn

Wyoming Hurricane of '09

Early Harvest

Easy come...Easy go...

I was not home, thank goodness, to helplessly stand by and watch the 75 mph wind, rain and hail wipe out my most lush garden in years (thanks to all the rain we got and all the hail we missed here in the yard)





Almost all of the tomatoes are smashed or heavily bruised

Cucumber bed

Bits of peppers

The yard looks like autumn leaves only green. The roots, beets, carrots and onions are fine. The green beans, gone.
There wouldn't have been much I could've done. Clark was getting ready to bale hay when the storm slammed in. He was trying to finish rolling up a round bale. Before he could get it done he couldn't even see where he was and had to finish rolling it wet. Needless to say we are trying to keep a stiff upper lip so the other one won't give in to a terrible despondency.

Text and pictures © 2009 Mona E. Dunn