Best buds...

Cowboy and Pete...

We call this cow...

"Don King."

Cool fog this morning...

Photo of fog on the hills, taken off from back steps this morning.

Real men (cowboys) wear (hot) pink...

Cowboy put on a ranch rodeo this past weekend in the Moorcroft, Wyoming. (With a little bit of help from Moi.)
The winning team, Boothill 7 of Lusk, Wyoming, looked so snappy in their matching hot-pink shirts.

The announcer wore pink too...

To see all the photos, visit Northeast Wyoming Ranch Rodeo on Facebook.

Happy Pink Saturday!

Linking to Pink Saturday at How Sweet the Sound

Back-to-nature living...

Oops... Someone forgot to close the gate...

Red dirt road...

I took this photo last spring as I was coming home from a neighbor's branding. I just love how the red road looks with the green.

Red and green is one of my favorite color combos... and not because of Christmas.

All of the roads around here are red gravel, however, in other places, like where my brother lives, they are white.

Linking to Outdoor Wednesday and Rednesday

And, we have more flowers...

I spotted some more flowers on my way home from work, ya'll. At first I thought it was alfalfa... alfalfa has purple flowers... and it's growing in the neighbor's field... but Cowboy has informed me that it's more weeds. I don't care. They're still beautiful flowers to me...!

Linking to Outdoor Wednesday at Southern Daydreamer

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...

I realize this post might make some of you shudder.

I know you probably spend a good amount of your time ridding your yard of these pesky "weeds."

But to me, they are beautiful wildflowers.

You see, last week it was snowing... Heck, it's been snowing for 9 months... But today is sunny and I'm just so excited to see color, I could squeal.

(Okay, I did squeal...! Then I flopped on the ground right there and rolled around in the grass.)

When you are a Southerner, living a life virtually void of flowers, you'll take what you can get...

...and be darned happy to have it.

So, next time one of these pops up on your beautiful lawn, think of me...

...and remember...

Dandelions are flowers too.

Linking to Outdoor Wednesday at Southern Daydreamer and Mellow Yellow Monday

Cow and calves...

This post is dedicated to my follower, Tracy, from Honeysuckle and Hissy Fits in Georgia. She just loves cows, ya'll.

Here is a small handful of my cow photos. There are hundreds of babies running around right now. Cowboy has branded three times here at this ranch. Today he's branding calves at his parents'. He took our Border Collie, Pete, with him. He'll brand two more times here. On June 20, the bulls get turned out with the cows and on June 25, he will trail what's left here to the Hatfield, a pasture to the south. Then he can breathe a sigh of relief until October.

A very new Black Angus

Black Angus and Red Brockle Face

Black Brockle Face

Black Baldy

Momma Cow in my yard

Moo

Linking to Outdoor Wednesday and Show and Tell

Why cowboys drive pick-up trucks...

I asked cowboy a couple of times to bring me some hay for the baby calf we're bottle feeding... but he kept forgetting.

So, when I spotted a pile in the road on my way home from work, I brought it home.

Like this...

At first, it was going pretty well...
But after I drove about 3 feet, it blew back and covered the entire windshield. (Photo taken from the driver's seat.)

I had to drive home with my head hanging out the window and hay blowing in my face. I wish I could tell you that this is the first time I have done this... but that would be a lie.

And this, my friends, is why cowboys drive pick-up trucks.

Linking to Outdoor Wednesday at Southern Daydreamer