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| This morning was breathtaking. You couldn't see anything more than fifty yards out. The morning fog was so thick and gave light to some beautiful pictures. |
He spent the morning moving cattle with his sweetheart and two sons up on the summer range. I woke up early enough to slip outside in my pajamas, with camera in hand, to capture a few fun shots. Again, just working on learning this camera and having fun with it! I'm not perfect, but have these wild ideas that I want to make happen. :) Enjoy!
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| Roxy, ready to go. Just watching from the doorway. |
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| loved this. If only the previous owner of the ranch hadn't have used mainline water pipe to build the corral and something more beautiful like.. wood... these pictures would have been even better. :) We got a good laugh out of the 'elephant' fence those first few years... |
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| Bringing in the loyal steeds. |
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| This is my baby brother. He looks like my grandpa Crandall in this picture... about 70 years younger. The pants. Nuthin' to hold em' up but a belt or suspenders. Love it! |
Sadly, I neglected to fully download the rest of the morning's STUNNING pictures before deleting them. I'm crushed. I had some cute ones of the horsemen (and my mom) on their horses riding off into the sunrise to move the cattle to the summer range up on the mountain. Totally sick about deleting them. Anybody know how to recover deleted pictures from the camera??? Stevie???
A few more I thought I had taken, but, derrrrr, my mom took them with her camera...I obviously had my hands full...hardy har har!
Just for fun:
I switched my mom horse for car, about 3 miles from home. Totally got sunburned on this 20 minute leisure ride. LOL! Got back to the barn, and my mom was standing there with a camera and my baby...to which I discovered had had a blow-out, but because my mom wanted to 'get a picture of us', just put a diaper on and wrapped him in a blanket. Good thing it was warm this day, despite the wind.
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| remind me to never do my hair like that. and to make sure I lose about 25 lbs, pronto. |
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Tanner and Taylor have been quite the outdoorsmen this week. They've killed two baby water snakes and a bird, and befriended a third snake.
I caught Tanner running into my mom's kitchen from the garage with a baby snake by the tail (about 8 inches long) and hollered after him, "Get out of here with that dead snake!!!"
To which my mom chased him down in the yard and made him throw it over the fence into a swampy area behind the house...because it WAS NOT DEAD!
"Why did you bring a snake into my house!" my mom chastised.
"Because it needed a warm place to live," Tanner innocently replied.
I'm so glad I am going home today...my kids have officially had too much fun and killed too many innocent animals. And traumatized my dad's chickens by "being chicken farmers" and looking for new eggs no less than a dozen times a day!
Oh, the joys of the wonderful outdoors!!! I don't know what we're going to do the rest of the summer in a teeny-tiny apartment. We might just have to plan monthly mini-vacations to my parents' home in the wind-blown open country in the middle-of-nowhere.
I wonder if Tanner's swim coach will count swimming in grandma's pool as practice, or if the garden will plant and weed itself, or if Ryan would miss us if we stayed. Cause we've been gone a week and the car is packed, yet nobody want's to go home. :)
I can't wait to get to the hundreds of moments I've captured this past week....there's some good ones! Stay tuned for some more excitement.
2 comments:
Deanna that picture of clay(I think) totally took me back to keenly days. I would say that kid has a huge dose of cranial in him. He does look just like uncle sonny, the way I remember him. So fun to see all these amazing pictures. Your awesome.
Keetly
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