Greener Pastures

Although the short-list of tasks I'm managing at work looks something like this ...

 

... I am comforted by the fact that I live in an environment that looks like this ...

 

As late summer crops are beginning to be harvested, the fields seem more beautiful than ever, bright shades of green that beg to be rolled in, periodically painted by strips of rich brown where tractors have cut and plowed. Bright wildflowers adorn the roadsides- chicory, tiger lily, Queen Anne's lace, black-eyed Susan and all shades of blue-green prairie grasses. So beautiful!