It’s Monday morning in the last week in July. This could mean something. The potential is there:
“There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate....”
— T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
The Ski-Hi Stampede Rodeo, after suffering its one and only interruption since one year in World War II, resumed in post-pandemic panic Monte Vista this weekend. Although I had nothing to do with the general festivities, the vibe in the air was as happy as it’s been in a while.
The Stampede Rodeo all but closes out the summer in Monte Vista. The potato harvest is already begun in places due to the wet, hot summer, and in the largest potato-producing place outside of Idaho, that’s something. The long shifts of gleaning and sorting will still be in full effect when Monte Vista hosts the Colorado Potato Festival in September.
The leaves will begin changing within three weeks as we approach the middle of August.
Here’s to a better summer than we had last year. I’m not saying that to be ironic. From all I witnessed last year, it very well could have been worse.
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