I promised you a better picture than my repost of yesterday…and it fell in to my lap…well, almost! I’m leaving a friend’s home in the subdivision, Sunland, this afternoon, and there it was! This deer was having lunch underneath a tree in a yard not half a block from my friend’s home. I stopped the car, rolled down the window and for awhile, it just watched me. I’m sure the home owner would prefer it not come back to lunch on her plants, but it was beautiful to watch as it meandered along.
Category: Animals
Big Dogs and Their Owners
This big boy was taking a nap when I stopped by. I think he was tired of people bugging him. The thumbnail shows one of the proud owners and her best friend.
Fair Animals
The Clallam County Fair is Right Around the Corner
It is time to get your projects ready to enter the fair. I usualy put a couple of quilts in the fair and for the last few years have entered photos. It is hard choosing only four. My choices are generally ones that I like…not necesarily ones that judges would choose…and that is O.K. I have nine printed…now which ones are will I enter? I’ll let you know what I choose.
Sequim Elk
You know some days you just know the picture you are going to post and something happens that changes your mind. Lucky me I had my camera with me on the way to town yesterday. I notice a small herd of young Roosevelt elk along Old Olympic. It surprises me at first. I am used to the blinking lights of the radio collared elk east of town. My car immediately goes to the side of the road…flashers on..I jump out with camera ready….
(1.) they head back to the fence east of the cattle and jump over, all but this big boy….
(2.) he checks out the fence
(3.) heads back to get a running start and doublechecks the speed limit sign
(4.) and bounds back over the fence….
(5.) just as a love sick cow runs up…I kid you not, when she saw him in the field she high tailed it right over to say hello!
Sequim is famous for its Elk and its lavender.
And the answer is ……..
On the third of March, my post posed a question about those red things hanging from the ears of the sheep. Another brother (I have 5) found the answer! Thank you Tim! This link might give you more information about sheep than you ever wanted to know. My sheep with the red tags were born in 2006. After that…I can’t tell you.
The Herd
As an old farm girl I should know why some of the sheep have red tags and some don’t. I can come up with several theories, but what is yours? The story behind this photo is probably more interesting than the photo. I have been “eyeing” a field beside 101 for the last couple of weeks thinking we would have to have baby lambs soons…a sure sign that spring is on it’s way. I parked in a very dangerous spot today to get out and take pictures…turning on my emergency flashers. Once I got out and starting shooting, the big guy in the middle decided I must have brought lunch…it was a stampede to the spot right in front of me. I was afraid the babies might get trampled, so I packed up and tried to get back on the road…my son-in-law spots me and calls on my cell to see if I am having problems. A chuckle on the line when I tell him what I’m up to. It is so nice to be checked on. I love my family.