Last Sunday was one of those rare warm spring days…and Minnie Mouse was taking it in breathing all those yummy outside smells!
She is so very cute!
Mom can you smell that!!! She is in her jungle mode scoping out her pray…and planning her attack!
While Minnie was occupied with spring smells and Wild Bill was playing on his laptop, I had the opportunity to go for a walk with my camera….it was truly peaceful, warm and beautiful.
The light was beginning to change to a golden soft light…perfect for pictures.
Before we know it this wheel will be turning and watering the pastures once again.
I love the sagebrush…the colors of the sky…the land…and the clouds.
Various hues of light dance as the sun is slowly fading…
The sky seems to constantly change as the golden light softens Juniper…
Amazing….from second to second the colors change all around me as I click and snap picture after picture.
The sun is dipping into a can of various colors of orange, gold and purple as it sets.
The sheer gold light reflects itself into the landscape…
Until our sun slowly sinks lower behind the hill…gently rolling over to go to sleep after a long warm spring day
Hot Rod Cowgirl 
Apr 03, 2012 @ 09:22:28
Your pictures are breathtaking. The shots of the constantly changing sky are so beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
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Apr 03, 2012 @ 11:19:02
You are welcome and thank you so much for stopping in:)
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Mar 11, 2012 @ 12:36:37
the sky pictures are so good!
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Mar 11, 2012 @ 16:12:57
Thank you so much:)
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Mar 10, 2012 @ 16:47:26
I am also on the please-make-a-calendar bus. I’d buy it in a heartbeat!
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Mar 10, 2012 @ 17:30:13
I will look into it 🙂
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Mar 10, 2012 @ 13:58:06
Ahhh… now I’m all rested up and ready to hit the hay…
Darlin’, that is one fine-lookin’ wooden fence you got there..
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Mar 10, 2012 @ 13:01:22
If you added the smell of worn saddle leather, I’d die a happy man!
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Mar 10, 2012 @ 15:18:57
How’s this for the last line….As twilight set in, I headed back to the barn, drawn to the soft golden light coming from the open door of the tack room. I swung my leg off of Mel, grabbing my camera, as I automatically un-did the back cinch and threw the stir up over the saddle to finish with the front cinch. I love the smell of horse sweat mixed in with my old worn saddle leather…I got her un-saddled and brushed for the night…as I led her to the stall I felt the chill of the night air on my face as I pulled my neck scarf a bit tighter….to be continued:)
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Mar 11, 2012 @ 07:37:02
Ahhh… I close my eyes and hear the sound of creaking leather! Great ending my friend. I wonder whatever possed me to move here to Florida when I could have once again gazed up at the sawtooth mountains and saw the face of God. Musta been a reason, just can’t remember what it was. I think the type of saddle says a lot about the person who sits on it. Yours, double cinched… versitle, ready for a hard days work, stable, well prepared for trail or ropin’ or whatever needs bein’ done. You mention the Crowley ranch there in OR. Many of my family in Idaho are Crowleys. I wonder…might be a small world.?
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Mar 11, 2012 @ 10:26:48
Thank you:) I loved the Sawtooths…from the house in WY. I looked directly at Gannet Peak, highest peak in WY. at 0ver 14,000′ in the Wind Rivers part of the Continental Divide…then behind me was the Wyoming Range I believe….off towards the Upper Green I could see the Gros Vetre’s so we were surrounded by God’s incredible mountains..I found it to be mouth dropping with me saying to my hubby “wow, incredible views, wow”, and they did it all the old fashioned way where we lived…no cattle tabes or shoots…my hubby loved that as me too. Hubby used to go out to the Crowley to rope when he was needed and told me that back in the 60’s through the early 90’s…then the Russel family bought it..the ranch was around 150,000 acres and bordered up against the Owyhee Reservoir on the East side of the Owyhees. But maybe way back some of your family homesteaded the Crowley? It is an unusual name so one would think there could be a connection. What part of Idaho is your family from?
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Mar 11, 2012 @ 11:47:16
Well, that’s kind of difficult to say what part of Idaho we come from. My great grandfather (the Edwards side of the family )was the last known “free agent “ mountain man in Idaho/Montana selling mink furs to the Hudson Bay Company’s until it evolved into a retail department store chain mostly in Canada . His name was Hamblin La Felle “Trap” Edwards. I also am related to Nez Perce (Wallowa) Cheif Joseph’s brother Olikut as Olikut’s daughter married my ancestor William. And their son married into the blackfeet. My Aunt( the Crowley side of the family) is a Crowley but some of the Crowley’s had an “O” in front but dropped it (O’Crowley). My family (in one form or another) settled ‘mainly’ north of the Snake river from Caldwell near Oregon to Pocatello in the east. (I 84 mostly) My Dad and his brothers lived mainly in Stanley, Ketchum, Hailey and Mackay area (St Rt 75) but family seems to be all over the place now.
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Mar 11, 2012 @ 16:11:46
What a truly rich heritage you have!!! So important to write it down for future generations. I know I need to do the same for our kids as they are not into all of this yet….but someday they will be. In my case being an only and having lost my parents already puts that responsibility on me to tell the stories of old that were passed on to me…so I am working on that too.
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Mar 10, 2012 @ 12:59:55
Gorgeous – you just can’t beat “golden hour” for photos!
And I love that little Minnie!
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Mar 10, 2012 @ 14:56:27
🙂 Thank you and I agree on Minnie…she is incredibly precious!
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Mar 10, 2012 @ 11:58:38
Will you consider publishing a calendar? I’d buy it! I love your photos so much 🙂 MJ
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Mar 10, 2012 @ 12:15:34
Thank you MJ…I would love to do that….where or how do you do that?
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Mar 10, 2012 @ 11:12:07
Great photos of gorgeous clouds. And I think Minnie Mouse has a doppelganger living at my house. Check out this post on my blog for photographic evidence! Someone Stole My Heart –
http://timetobeinspired.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/someone-stole-my-heart
Your barn cats are really beautiful too – great coats.
Terri
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Mar 10, 2012 @ 12:14:02
You are right on!!! Minnie and I both say Wow….Kush is beautiful like Minnie Mouse:) Thank you for stopping in and bive Kush a rub:)
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Mar 10, 2012 @ 10:23:30
Beautiful photos…..amazing that the sky holds so many colors in its’ palette to compliment the landscape at any point in time.
Just lovely……………wonderful photography!!
Pam
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Mar 10, 2012 @ 10:28:05
🙂 Thank you!
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