When I took this photo the other day… I yearned for those snowcapped Big Horns to share a little chilly breeze with me… I’ve been painting in the heat… Moving cattle in the heat… Mowing weeds in the heat… Sorting piles of junk necessary metal pipes/bars/angle iron/flat iron/etc/etc in the heat… Wasn’t it just a…
A Distinctive Smell
There’s a unique smell that I have a love/hate relationship with… It’s kept me company on many a starlit night… It’s fired our branding barrels many a year ago… It’s given me worries about my guys… It’s made me sick to my stomach… It’s made me cry… It’s made me lose sleep… It’s come within…
Rodeo Revamped
Playing with Photoshop can be addictive… That’s A.W. whose been a rodeo judge here quite a while… a little “antique” effect adds to the height of this photo, dontcha think? A tad bit of cropping and black vignette lets the cowboys and judge be together in this one. Sepia (my favorite!) brings a timelessness to…
A Hot Move
The problem: Cows on the fence… they want to leave for the cooler mountain, but it isn’t time yet. Some dirty cows even are IN the field! Then there are the troublemakers… Lucas and Elsa have success! Lucas makes it to Bruner Draw… and goes looking for a mud puddle… he’s overheating and tired already….
A Find
I know someone who found something and then, wonder of wonders, returned it to the closest owner available. Her husband is a carpenter and was remodeling an old cabin. Tucked away in the bottom of an old cabinet, was this. Absolutely gorgeous, is it not??? Hand-tooled… spectacular. It even has multiple pockets inside! It has…
Wordless Wednesday – Working Dogs
Lucas and Elsa show off their working ability.
I Admit
I love taking photos of Wonderful Wyoming… my English Shepherds… and rodeo… But with rodeo, I admit… I’m not sure if I like the split second before a wreck photo… Or the perfect ride photo… OK, not a good ride, but a good move by the clown/bullfighter! This one’s my favorite… plus I know this…
Let’s Rodeo!
The 4th in Ten Sleep means parade. The 4th in Ten Sleep means street dance. The 4th in Ten Sleep means RODEO! Now I’ve taken photos of the parade every year but this one because… We were Grand Marshals. A friend took this one… There’s me and my boys, and Victoria and Vernon… unseen is…
It Was There…
Apologies for not posting yesterday. I wanted to share our 4th of July Celebration Small Town Style. I want the world to know… that here… It is everywhere. We followed it at the front of the parade. It lined the streets. It’s on the back of a horse drawn wagon. It’s on the competitors in…
Rain
Don’t know how the ships at sea feel… but the .4″ of rain here has created mud and soggy hay. Don’t laugh… .4″ is a fair rain here… we only get 14″ in an entire year here! I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned it… but my father-in-law, Johnny, is a NOAA weather observer… he’s…
A Plea for Dana
I was recently contacted by a woman in Moses Lake, Washington. Her husband has been diagnosed with terminal multiple myeloma and they will no longer be able to run cattle or their ranch. She is desperately seeking a new home for Dana. Dana is out of Elsa… but the father is Dubya, both owned at…
Wordless Wednesday – Lonely One Room Schoolhouse
One room schoolhouse from my father-in-law’s childhood sits under the red bluffs… lonely, waiting for children’s laughter just one more time…