Before summer gets away and the mountains are covered in their white blanket until spring… I need to finish some photos I took for you earlier in September… I’ve mentioned before the buffalo trails that exist in this country… If you don’t remember… Cow trails look like this… narrow… winding… Buffalo trails are wide enough……
Category: Wildlife
We Know Wapiti
Wapiti. Wapiti. Wapiti. Sounds like a flat tire, doesn’t it? Well, it isn’t. Wapiti are the reason ranchers have to fix a lot of fence around these parts. Wapiti are one of the reasons I want a telephoto lens for my camera. Wapiti tend to eat a large amount of alfalfa should they be given…
Wild Life
When my friends from New Zealand were here not long ago… it made me re-realize the amount of wildlife we take for granted. I mean, I *know* it… but sometimes you just need people to oooohhh and aaaahhhhh over the little mule deer doe in the road to remind you! You can retreat to this…
Saturday Rain Moments
Last night it poured… and then again this morning… We had a trip planned today… going to Douglas, Wyoming to the State Fair to pick up our Centennial Ranch sign from US Senators Enzi and Barrasso, and US Congresswoman Lummis. The heavy rain made us stick to the paved roads… adding two hours to our…
Cathartic?
Cathartic… purging the bowels… metaphorically cleansing the psyche. Ewwww! Right? Never did I know until today… that turkey vultures’ Latin name is Cathartes aura. Purifier. As in regurgitation. As in urohydrosis. Look that one up! Why do I care? Because up at the Mills place you see this… See ’em? They love it up there……
Low Light
I tried to get some photos of 5 bull elk in our field last night. Their antlers have shed, of course, but, body-wise… they were big bulls. However, it was dark-thirty, and I’m very bad at taking pictures in low light. From the top of a 4 wheeler. While it is moving. And the subjects…
Open
As the sun sets, I often switch to sepia or black and white to use the contrast. This little reservoir in the badlands gave me the perfect opportunity to play. This one turned out to be my favorite… and “Open” seemed like an appropriate title. The badlands aren’t that “bad”… as you can see in…
Strut Your Stuff
Well, I have OOPE photos from yesterday. I have fence fixin’ photos from today. I have wildlife photos from today. I have scenery photos from today. Rarely do I have so much to talk about and so little time and space… The morning began with Lucas and I helping Johnny kick heifer calves out…
Heifer Story
Sooner or later, you do a job long enough, something unusual will occur that makes the entire process glow with a new light… So it is with checking heifers… I mentioned before how I check the heifers sometime between 10 and 11 pm. There are no street lights. Moonlight and starlight exist in its phases,…
Feeding What?
I have always enjoyed identifying birds, tracks, animals, plants, trees… whatever seems to cross my path. I was VERY frustrated on my cruise last year… asking locals what the names of the trees were and they would simply say, “I don’t know.” I don’t like that. I try to know what things are! Now I…
Up the mountain
We have had multiple snowstorms blow through… some have hit us, some just barely over the top of us, as we can see the snow line just a few hundred feet up the mountain. Today, though, has been a gorgeous day. Fairly warm… just hear that grass grow! Ironically, I spent most of the morning…
Quarry
We stepped over the prickly pear cactus and avoided the tall sagebrush. Every few steps our jeans accidentally brushed against the sage creating a seemingly loud *scrrrrrritch*. We pointed and whispered, our quarry lay ahead in the dim light. We could hear them and see their white patches in the the deepening gloom. Unfortunately the…