Texture

I took all these for this week on the same day as we were riding horses

I dont know if this next one really counts as texture, but it was pretty cool so i added it anyway, you can see me and my daughter, and the fence in the reflection of her eye.

If you would like to see some great photos others have posted for this weekly challenge click HERE to go directly to the comment section of the post and click on their name or the link they provide. Of you can go HERE to read each challenge!

Challenge - Wildflowers

My favorite Picture I took this week!!! I tried something new, the sky was just too beautiful to not use it as a backdrop! As usual I went crazy, I take so many because it is a challenge and I like to see how many good pictures I can take.... So here they go, not too many this time...but a few, so if you get bored looking at flowers I wont be offended! :-)

I dont know what this next one is but its definitely strange and beautiful all the same, thinking I may put some of these in my flower beds next year!

Now this next one is my favorite flower, its my favorite color, periwinkle, and I just love the fields covered in blue in mornings.

Another favorite, Norms least favorite, a farmers enemy...the dreaded thistle! In various stages of blooming...

hmmm a flower? Kinda I guess

This little flower is white but I liked the black and white better than the original

Thats it, I had more, but I didn't want to totally overload you on wildflowers!

BLUSHING! A post about me on another bloggers blog!

I was soooooo pleased today when I read another photographers blog and I was blogged about! How cool is that!? Thanks so much Paul!!!!! I'm so honored that you like my pictures! Yours are so awesome and I am always afraid that I cannot compare to others photographs...I try to be "different" and go out on a limb sometimes....sometimes it works, and some times it doesnt. but I've learned thats part of it, and I think the challenge of that is what I like so much.

So thanks Paul BIG TIME for your appreciation and for blogging about me! I really am honored!

You can read his blog HERE and see his wonderful photos as well! He is a part of the SUNDAY STILLS CHALLENGE I do each week, there are so many talented photographers that are participating, so if you like to take pictures come join us here..at least take a look at some lovely pictures!
if you would like to see more photographs I have taken you can view my other blog here!

Many thanks again Paul!

Things With Wings..Sunday Stills Challenge

I went crazy with this one...sorry!

Grain Silos and Water Tower Challenge

This weeks challenge is Water Towers and Grain Silos....water towers...wish I had my camera available while I was driving to Lexington Ky earlier this week, the water tower there just into town has a beautiful scene of racing horses painted around...awesome, but I cant take pics when I'm driving in bad traffic! Oh well......so here is what I have from around here. Back in the Fall we had some AWESOME RED and ORANGE sunsets...totally awesome, the kind that catch your breath. None of the pictures are altered in any way (except for the one I changed to black and white)..YES it was that bright and that red! I hope to see many more like that! the very last photo was taken this past week....

Challenged - The color Yellow

Black and White

This weeks challenge is my second favorite to do (my first favorite is macro!) I LOVE the way you can turn such an ordinary picture into black and white - making that photo a really awesome photograph! Can wait to see what everyone has posted! Happy Mothers Day!
-Rachel

Greenery

A snippet of this weeks challenge:
"by now there should be some greenery in just about everywhere, so lets shoot some flowers and plants for the folks without flowers…:-)"

Stills Challenge - RED

This sunset was taken last summer and it was totally awesome..bright deep red! I wish I had gotten more but after 4 pics it was gone!
This is Bella One of the flowers growing by the lake we share with a neighbor.
Buck and Bella.And this fine gentleman is a dandy!

I have to apologize for this weeks challenge, I went into the archives. Kids spring break, and much going on kept me from the camera! Sorry but hope you enjoy what I've got!

Sunday Stills - Animals of Husbandry...OH GOODY!

***Guys - really my internet (for a lack of a better word) Sucks. I have dial up and I get a lousy connection and comments are the hardest for me to leave. So if you dont hear from me I'm so sorry...I have loved everyones pics this week...I have to say this is probably my favorite challenge so far..seeing all the farm animals, sheep, goats, chickens, horses and cows, etc...always bring a smile to my face. I think everyone did a great job and had some fun and wonderful pictures! I'm supposed to be getting DSL in the next few weeks (they started last week laying the cable..hopefully comment and downloading problems solved)

Okay on to this weeks post!****

I must apologize.....I've got TONS of pictures for this challenge from this week and the past..I only posted some from the past for fun, some just too cute not too! Enjoy! This is one of my bottle fed calves Giant and my wanna be cow dog - Levi playing.

No animals were harmed in the making of this post! The calf actually loves Levi and they play all the time! Next is one of my favorite cows...Amy...
Below is my very first bottle fed calf - Oliver (he was an orphaned twin RIP)Amy again...she isn't camera shy at all!
In fact...Amy is a camera hog!

This is Molly our Percheron Mare who HATES to have her hooves trimmed...we have to use a twitch on her in order to get them done...no this doesn't harm the animals at all, it actually releases endorphins that calm them.

The above are a few of 2008 calves.
My two first bottle fed calves Anni and Oliver....just getting inoculated and ummm..Oliver got stripped of his manhood...he is now a steere. Here is his before pic..one of my all time favorite!

Next are Buck and Bella two of our gaited horses and they are IN LOVE!
Buck is a ham...Next....my two current bottle fed calves, Torro and Giant...and Pepper...yes..she thinks she is a cow...no kidding..
Momma and baby...one of the new spring babies!
My two boys "horsing around".

The Love Birds..Buck and Bella...kissy kissy smoochy smoochy!

Jack learning ground manners and the beginning of lounging

Some of the ladies we are blessed to live with! I hope you enjoyed them! I enjoyed taking them!!!!! now to read every ones..lets hope comments work for me tonight! I'm also using this post for a new meme ..camera critters!! New group and I'm excited about this one too since I love taking pics of my critters!