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Peek-a-boo! Twin calf update...
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This sweet boy named Andy, just wasn't getting the attention he needed from his momma. It most likely would have turned out fine if we could have corralled them up and kept them in close quarters for a week, but it's just too muddy out there right now. So we decided to take Andy away from his mom and twin sister, Annie, so he can live a good life. Instead of taking on bottle-fed calves this year (which I still love doing), we've decided to give any calf that needs to be bottle-fed to a neighbor farmer that also has fairy cows with dairy cow milk besides milk replacer. They have kids and they are into 4-H and spoiling animals. We brought him there yesterday and he has 3 other calves to play with and learn from. After seeing how the other ones acted more like dogs than cows wanting affection and rubs, I know he'll be well taken care of.
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Although not the ideal situation, it's still a happy ending for little Andy. Not all calves are able to be lucky like this, but that's why we constantly check the now 100+ calves that have been born so far. Still a ways to go before calving season is over for us...then it will be hay season! Anyone else about out of hay?
Here's our newest visitor. Pocket gophers (Geomys personatus), are commonly referred to simply as gophers and are burrowing rodents. Pocket gophers get their name from their fur-lined cheek pouches, or pockets. These pockets are used for carrying food. However, the pockets on a gopher open on the outside and turn inside out for emptying and cleaning. They have many special adaptations for their burrowing lifestyle, including clawed front paws for digging, small eyes and ears, and sensitive whiskers and tails. Their lips are unusual too. The lips can be closed behind the large protruding, chisel-like upper front teeth, which allows the pocket gopher to excavate soil without ingesting it. Pocket gopher mounds are built of excavated soil. The gophers usually build one to three mounds per day although this rate may vary. One gopher can bring about 2 1/4 tons of soil to the surface each year. Mound-building activity usually is greatest in spring and fall. Pocket gophers are solitary animals that only come together in the spring and summer to breed. Young pocket gophers are born in nest chambers underground. The mother takes care of the young for several weeks before sending them on their way to construct burrows of their own. Pocket gophers generally live less than three years. Most pocket gopher species are relatively common and not of conservation concern. The desert pocket gopher is the most threatened species because it occupies a very small range and is thus more vulnerable to habitat loss. My wife has affectionately named this one, are you ready for this? Joe Dirt!
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This will more then likely be my last sunrise image posted for a bit, I got a tun of them, but I really do not want them flooding my photo stream, I look forward to getting to the beach soon! So that I can post those! Any way, over the past few sun rises, I have noticed something, that when the sun does finally peek over the mountains, it gets bright, QUICK! And those first few images are unusable because it makes the foreground blacked out! Except yesterday morning, the fog was dense enough to mute the power of the sun. So, I was able to get a more perfect image on the sun its self. Any way, perfect is such a relative and subjective word. So, perhaps perfect would not be the right word, but hey, I happened to like this any way. This image is a great display on what I meant by areas of dense fog where it became at times unuseable. But I managed to make this one work, all the images around it were not work able. Perhaps the high ISO had a help in this and the "snake" in my back yard the day before because useful after all? Who knows, All I know is that I need many more sunrises to prefect the talent that so many of my flickr friends already have! And that is why I bother with the 365, by years end, I want to be able to know my camera in and out so that guessing is no longer the name of the game! :)
Please, do enjoy!
For this image, I believe the only filter I used was the Cokin soft grad, for the sake of the sun.
The balls of fur with claws have put holes in the screen so Luka can take advantage and peek thru. September 2023
A curious fox pup peeking out from behind a rock to check me out while i took a few photos.
His borthers and sisters had already ran off but they didn't go to far before curiosity got the best and they came back to see what I was up to.
Who can tell me why this reminds of the 60s? A TV show, an album cover--I can't put my finger on it. :D
© Web-Betty: digital heart, analog soul
Brighton
1933 Voigtländer Brillant box camera and Svema Foto 65 which expired in January 1979, I exposed as 20 iso and developed in Rodinal 1+25 for 6 minutes 15 seconds at 20C.
Some weeks ago, we planted eight Sunflowers, and before very long, the plants were nudging 2.1 metres (or 7 feet) tall.
And then disaster struck: a severe wind storm swept up the valley one night, and two of the towering plants were snapped in half - but more about them later!
And for the other six? One was very slow to start growing and has remained "The Runt", but the remaining five flourished, and before long, the large buds that had formed at the top of the plants began to ever-so-slowly open...
It was a quite exciting moment when the yellow flowers actually began peeking out at the world around them...!
EARTHQUAKE!
A 4.7 quake, with its epicentre just 8 kilometres north of us, struck with a loud bang at precisely 5:18am this morning. It was, to say the least, a rather unpleasant awakening, but thankfully no damage occurred...!
Thanks so much for the very kind and encouraging comments beneath this photo...! Your support is very greatly appreciated.
I took this large sheet of brown paper that was packing material in something we received and draped it over a couple of cardboard boxes that were already on the family room floor. The cat has been hiding out under there for about a week now!
The Cathedral windows in progress. Just wanted to give you a little peek before the finished product is revealed later. I hope you are liking it partner...