Photo of the week: Bootprints in the sand

The inch of rain we got on Sunday was bad news for our last field of third crop, but it made for great footprint conditions in the soft gravel down by the hay shed. There's something about seeing Dan's little bootprints all around the farm that just melts my heart.

The same thing happens in the winter, when fresh snow wipes the palette clean and then clearly displays the early morning critter traffic. The first trail of little bootprints from the house to the barn makes all the extra work of bundling the kids up worthwhile.