Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
Off to the Vale Feed Lot
Saturday dawned and it was chilly, but quite beautiful...lots of sun, which promised a great day for traveling.
My Man and I had agreed to help our neighbors, at the TI Ranch, haul some yearlings to a feed lot in Vale, Oregon...about 3 hours away. When we arrived at their place, they were just finishing loading their trailer. They were ready to load ours.
These are the calves going into our trailer.
My friend Sam...never cross a woman
with a hot shot in her hand ;~)
She's a great lil' gal...barrel races
with the best of 'um!
Sam's husband Rusty and My Man setting gates.
Rusty pushing 'um into our trailer.
And we're on the road. It was a pretty uneventful trip. We just drove straight through to Vale.
This was the prettiest photo of the trip...
We were dropping off of Drinkingwater Pass
down onto the Malheur River which
was all fogged in. When we got into the fog,
the trees were all covered
in frost...it was beautiful on the top side.
At the feed lot, we unloaded each trailer
of calves onto the scales.
They'll stay here until they reach
1200 pounds or so.
I couldn't help but feel bad...their lil' faces were
saying "We're not in Princeton anymore."
We stopped on the way back in Juntura for burgers and beer...not a bad way to spend a Saturday with friends~~
My Man and I had agreed to help our neighbors, at the TI Ranch, haul some yearlings to a feed lot in Vale, Oregon...about 3 hours away. When we arrived at their place, they were just finishing loading their trailer. They were ready to load ours.
These are the calves going into our trailer.
My friend Sam...never cross a womanwith a hot shot in her hand ;~)
She's a great lil' gal...barrel races
with the best of 'um!
Sam's husband Rusty and My Man setting gates.
Rusty pushing 'um into our trailer.And we're on the road. It was a pretty uneventful trip. We just drove straight through to Vale.
This was the prettiest photo of the trip...We were dropping off of Drinkingwater Pass
down onto the Malheur River which
was all fogged in. When we got into the fog,
the trees were all covered
in frost...it was beautiful on the top side.
At the feed lot, we unloaded each trailerof calves onto the scales.
They'll stay here until they reach
1200 pounds or so.
I couldn't help but feel bad...their lil' faces weresaying "We're not in Princeton anymore."
We stopped on the way back in Juntura for burgers and beer...not a bad way to spend a Saturday with friends~~
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Sunday Stills
This week's Sunday Stills Challenge was shooting up and shooting down...and we're talking about your camera angle here!
I had a lot of problem getting my imagination working on this one...so this is all I could come up with. Hopefully I'll get some future reference ideas from others...you can view their Ups and Downs for this week here.
Looking down on Colt and his head is hanging
over a a small draw that is going
down toward the right. There was too much
shade in the draw (yes, that's snow in the draw).
I didn't know how to
set the camera to pick up better color. It almost looks
like I made it into a black & white.
This is some beautiful first morning light.
Coyote was coming off the hill for breakfast.
I had a lot of problem getting my imagination working on this one...so this is all I could come up with. Hopefully I'll get some future reference ideas from others...you can view their Ups and Downs for this week here.
Looking down on Colt and his head is hangingover a a small draw that is going
down toward the right. There was too much
shade in the draw (yes, that's snow in the draw).
I didn't know how to
set the camera to pick up better color. It almost looks
like I made it into a black & white.
This is some beautiful first morning light.Coyote was coming off the hill for breakfast.
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