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

Where bluebonnets and limestone grow like cotton...

I received an e-mail from the sweetest lady named Sandi who lives in a beautiful limestone house with a white tin roof and a yard filled with pure splendor. Sandi was kind enough to let me share her gorgeous photos with you. I know you're going to enjoy them so.

Sandi says, "We are located at the very edge of the Texas Hill County where bluebonnets and limestone grow like cotton in East Texas." I just love that!

That's her beloved, Brad, there amongst the bluebonnets in Sandi's front yard.

Brad has gone to the Rainbow Bridge. I hope it's every bit as lovely as the Texas Hill Country in spring.

Linking to Outdoor Wednesday at a Southern Daydreamer

Village Creek...

In the deep South, where temperatures linger at 100 degrees in the shade, and a day with 90% humidity is considered "not so bad," you need a place to cool off. That place, if you live in the Big Thicket of Southeast Texas, is Village Creek.

It's a place that so many Southeast Texans hold near and dear to their hearts.

Cypress knees

If you grew up around it, Village Creek becomes part of who you are.

It's hard to understand unless you're from there.

Cypress trees on the banks of Village Creek

It's more than just a place to swim, canoe, fish, BBQ, camp... It's a place to make memories... the kind that never go away.

Linking to Outdoor Wednesday at Southern Daydreamer

Hydrangeas at the Old House in Texas...

My sister just sent these photos of the hydrangeas at the Old House in Texas. I think they are looking really good this year. When I was home in October, I pruned them. I think they appreciated it.

This one is for Pink Saturday...


Also linking to Outdoor Wednesday and Show and Tell Friday

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

The Old House yard...

My sister just sent me this photo of the Old House yard. Isn't it pretty?

Linking to Outdoor Wednesday at Southern Daydreamer

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