Frankie's Friday Farm Fact #6

This week's fact:

Winter has definitely arrived in the Midlands...

Trees are all naked 

stripped bare of their leaves

shivering, wailing, sighing

in the crisp winter breeze.

The heifers are all poofy

and look like fluffy mountain goats 

frolicking in the fields

in their specially grown winter coats.

The air is thick with smoke 

as black lines criss-cross the fields

protecting lands from unwanted blazes

and ensuring good spring yields.

Snow dusts the Drakensberg

and frost bites our toes every dawn

darkness lingers for longer

and the veld is grey and forlorn.

Clouds of misted breath,
red noses and cold ears,
here's to another Winter in the Midlands
perhaps the coldest one in years...