Last week got to spend three blessed days at the farm with the animals and I tell you it was a tonic for my soul! This summer has been so darned rush-around busy that I have gotten used to waking up not knowing what city I’m in. Only one more major trip on the horizon and then I’ll be able to get my behind back to Virginia and my flock.
This is going to be a bit of a photo dump, cause I’m running out the door for a meeting. Sorry about that!
Good Morning, Buster (or Cosmo? I’m ashamed to admit that I still can’t keep them straight!)
Alabama is saying something hilarious to Bennett.
I love how it looks like Milkshakes & her family are holding goat-court on their dais of hay.
Peaceful cows (and watchful Gnocchi! Just like his father.)
Love that pup.
And, by poplar request, a special appendix of photos of Luna & Stella
I went out for a walk in the pastures very early this morning.
I don’t think the flock was expecting me.
I’m sure Cini wasn’t– I woke him up.
And I think Dora, at least, wasn’t sure whether or not she was camera-ready.
It’s so peaceful to watch the patterns they take as they graze, and to see the trails they leave in the dewy grass.
I’m not sure it could have been a more pleasant morning.
The look Cini’s giving me in this last one– I’m not quite sure what he’s saying, but I know it’s protective, calming, and reassuring.
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Cassiopeia
I can’t tell which picture of Demi I like more, so here are both of them.
Charley and Churchill. I just noticed that the tufty tip of Charley’s tail is bright red!
Milkshakes v. Hannah. It’s hard to tell who’s going to win this one.
Brooks & White
Monroe, I think, is trying to insinuate himself into the Luna/Stella family. No word yet on whether this is going to work, but I’ll keep you posted.
Sagitta, laughing at something.
Our baby ducks are growing up, but they are still small enough that five of them can swim in a grain pan.
I love how wildly different from one another their markings are.
Sabine and Gnocchi seem to be sharing a joke.
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Milkshakes
Demi (full name: Demoiselle Crane)
Buster & Cosmo, Cosmo & Buster, sitting like a pair of bookends.
Alabama
Feenat & Callum, mother & son.
Roquefort with a smirk.
Sacajawea
Little Clark
Gorgeous Stella
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Emu
Callum, always with that look.
Sam and Bertie, best friends forever.
Camembert, who’ll be our dairy buck this fall.
One of the pups, sleeping right in front of the barn fan.
His brother’s dreaming.
Look at how grown-up Gnocchi is!
Ewes and lambs in the front pasture.
Cini
Sweet Monroe and Madison
Some of our many, many chickens.
Bingley
Happy Cini
Willoughby. The more I look at her, the more I think she looks like Alabama.
Perseus and Lyra, two peas in a pod.
Little Clark, and all the lambs behind him.
Corvus and Canis
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It’s absolutely amazing to me how quickly the lambs are growing up (and let’s not even get started on the puppies!).
Diane and Cordelia are nearly as big as their mother, Capri.
And Perseus is just about as big as his mother, Lyra.
And while some of the ewes still graze close by their just-as-tall lambs,
there are plenty of lambs who’ve cut out on their own.
Lindbergh sure isn’t going to be caught hanging around his mother in public.
And Bingley’s not anywhere near her lamb, Alexander. She’s staying cool in the run-in.
But Aldrin runs over to me (or any human, really) as always, licking his lips!
While Cini and Lucy sit back and watch all that growing-up happen, like it does every year.
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I love with the way Corvus and Canis look like shadows of Ara, their mom.
From when they were little lambs,
to now.
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Finch
Wren
Callum
Not-So-Little Indigo
Feenat
Emma wanted to get personal, as usual
It is almost time to harvest our corn. The variety is called– what else?– Golden Bantam.
Sweet Aldrin
Cini
Diane
and Cordelia. I think they might be this year’s prettiest lambs.
Lewis
Perseus, in the foreground, and Boöetes, in the background. The fact that Perseus is about three shades lighter than Boöetes isn’t a trick of the light– it’s that his genes are half Cormo.
Little Gnocchi
Part of their training involves acclimatization. This pup could not care less about the goats he’s sharing the paddock with. That’s a good thing.
Lucy swings by for a visit.
Luna, our Great White Hope, is still doing fine.
Monroe
I tried all day to get a not-totally saturated photo of the July sock club yarn. It was first dyed yellow, then overdyed red, so the yarn appears to be glowing from within. It’s luminous and beautiful, and I think our lucky sock-clubbers will like it!
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Tagged Calves, ewes, In Pictures, lambs, Lucy, Luna, Maremma, posted by Caroline, puppies, sheep