Random pix

I've been super dooper busy in the last few days, so rather than writing something intelligent and insightful, I'll just post a few random pix.

Brit, our horse, taking advantage of some sunshine.

Thor is curious about human barns.

So is Brit.

A shaft of evening sun lights up virga over the butte.

I just happened to notice this little tableau and thought it was a revealing snapshot of what we read around here.

Major looking casual.

A raven in the wheat field.

This hummingbird (I think it was a black-chinned, but not sure) perched on a wire and stayed and stayed, grooming itself. I took these photos through a window so as not to disturb it, so I enhanced the colors.

Chickens pecking at a cantaloupe rind.

"What?"

Peaceable kingdom.

Matilda grooms Raven.

Lily and her bull calf, Atlas.

Quiet afternoon in the barn.

I've been doing a lot of hard work in the tire garden.

Here's proof.

Older Daughter scrubbing out the stock tank.

My little oak trees are doing beautifully.

I just transferred all the containers of baby oaks out to the garden.

My garlic is looking beautiful.

And the blueberries are SO much happier since I transplanted them into the raised bed.  Look at all those little growing berries!

Okay, we've got a problem. All these ladies are taking dust baths in the corral, where I just planted the corn last week.

Shoo!

I chased them out with a sprinkler.

Let's play!

Look how good the wheat field looks!

Younger Daughter's fish tank, her prize for memorizing the Declaration of Independence last year.

We had an absolute gully-washer of a thunderstorm roll through this evening.  It poured and pounded and drenched and drowned us for about forty-five minutes.

Pretty sunset.