Sort of. A regular commenter on one of my three very favorite blogs, (Pure Florida) started a neat photo exchange thingie for this weekend that sounded like a lot of fun. So I am going to play along.
Vitamin Sea is Laura's blog, worth a read while you check out other bloggers all around the country who are taking pictures of their hometowns, fields, forests, oceans and rivers this weekend and sharing them with us all. I am just waiting for the sun to come up before I head out with the camera to see what I can find to photograph. It is opening day of fall turkey season, so I am going to stay near the house. Of course it is pouring.
Wish I had taken the camera with me when we went out bringing heifers down yesterday. We brought all the springers in with the cows, so we can put the open heifers in with the bull in a couple of weeks. It was SO pretty on top of the heifer pasture hill, with the trees just starting to change and all the little white churches shining their steeples out among them.
I was amazed to find that I was able to comfortably hike up that big ol' hill TWICE! We went up first to get a half shorthorn heifer calf that wild little Mary had hidden in a tiny cup-shaped hollow we call the calving grove. (Cows have probably been hiding babies in there for a couple hundred years or more, ever since this has been a farm anyhow.) Then we had to go back for Mary, who for some reason wouldn't come along with her baby. Every breath was like a cool drink of water on a hot day. You could just feel the air recharging your lungs. In the heat of summer that hill about kills me. In fall I was able to charge up it faster than the boss.....the first time at least. He had a bit more stamina on the second trip.
Our resident red tailed hawk screamed as he sailed above us and the other heifers ran along side us dancing at the fun of it all. It actually was fun....for work.
UPDATE: I believe after reading posts on other blogs that I am supposed to take requests....so what would you like to see photographed here at Northview Farm?
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Checked out Laurie's blog, quite nice!
Uhhh....photos of your dogs, since I'm a dog geek. You post so many great wildlife and scenery shots, but not so many of Nick et al.
BUNNIES!
Yes, I have a severe soft-spot in my heart for the noble rabbit.
I know, you've done them before, but...
I only wish Sue and myself had taken a better camera last night... we were at a "ghost tour" (guided walking tour) of a haunted wooded area with a ruined mansion in Hamilton, Ontario... and it was very atmospheric...
I am on it....see below.
I'd like to see an overview of your farm... the landscape, etc. The trees are so beautiful and if you have hills, it would be so pretty. All your pictures are nice, though; I enjoy them.
Hi mrs. m, Thanks,
I will try, although it make take a couple of days. We are all hills, but I don't go up them all that much. lol
We are having such God-awful rain and with all the crazy turkey hunters out there......
MOMMY! I want kitty pictures...Blonde would work nicely.
no no Kashette
c'mon Kashie... you know you wanna use Kashie..... now just follow the medaliion as i wave it in front of you eyes you are sleepy... when you wake up you WILL fill your blog with photos of my cute little kitty....
hehehe
wuv you mummy....
Becky, enough already!!!!
I agree that I would like to see an overview of the farm. It's really quite fascinating from the road or from across the river.
Hi nw, guess I am going to do some hiking huh? How is your free time schedule looking these days? I made soup last night and could probably cook up another pot. lol
Hey thanks!
I'm a dog geek too so any dog pic is much appreciated.
I had asked for a pic of the bull you're always talking about, but I think Blogger ate that request.
Hey there FC, dogs are my favorites. It is rare that there isn't at least one by my feet or following me around. When they are all loose at once I can hardly walk without tripping over one.
Hi, laurainnj, I will get that one as soon as I can get down to the heifer barn where he is stationed.
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