Spring in Wisconsin Farm Country

A photo essay of where I live

A big blue sky, rolling clouds, and an old weather-beaten barn. (Photo Credit: Jessica Archuleta)

Before moving to Wisconsin in 2012, I had no idea how beautiful the farm country could be. I’m a California native and grew up in the desert living close to mountains, which is a huge contrast to the flat lands, woodlands, and family-run farms across the landscape of Wisconsin.

I look forward to spring blooming in Wisconsin after the long, white silence of winter. Here is a poem I wrote after seeing the tulips bloom in my yard, which always amazes me because I could never grow tulips in the California desert no matter how desperately I tried!

After the White Silence is Gone

Tulips and other flowers in early spring around Holy Resurrection Monastery in Saint Nazianz, Wisconsin. (Photo Credit: Jessica Archuleta)

Tulips, daffodils, a blossoming apple tree and lilacs, birds swooping about: they all mark the return of spring in my yard. (Photo Credit: Jessica Archuleta)