Desert Weyr Blog
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Blue & White
This is a lovely Colorado sky, bright blue and full of fluffy clouds. Summer is here. We didn’t have any spring – we went straight from winter to summer. Prompt: Using contrast in your photography can give you very artistic shots. Make a color photo with high contrast today. Continue reading
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Comfort Food
This is our dinner after a long day of building fences, trying to learn how to knit lace, running errands in town, etc. Comfort food, beer, brats, bread, and beans are all I’m up for. Prompt: Make an interpretive photo of a subject or scene that sums up your mood today. Continue reading
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A Pasture Scene
Here are some of our pregnant (or hopefully pregnant) ewes on pasture. Continue reading
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Code Breaker
My grandfather was a cryptographer. He used to send me letters in code that I had to break before I could read them. I recently found his old notebook, plus some newsletters and info from the ACA. I’ve had his basic cryptanalysis book for years. His code name was The Squire. My favorite activity was Continue reading
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Weeds
The sheep won’t eat these, unfortunately. Prompt: Get down and get your knees dirty today. Find some plant life, get close to its level (close and wide), and make a photo. Continue reading
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Farm Truck
What else would a sheep farmer have but a Dodge Ram truck? 🙂 Prompt: How do you get around – car, train, bicycle, plane, feet? Make a photo that represents your mode of transportation today. Continue reading
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Building Fences
We decided to build a welded wire fence around the front pear orchard that we hayed last year. That will give us two grazing paddocks in that area. We would normally use electric netting, but these need to be safe for the rams, and they tend to get their horns caught in the netting. Here’s Continue reading
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Memorial Day
I wanted to get a picture of the bridge on the main road into town. They line the bridge with flags donated by families of service men and women from our area. Unfortunately, farm work has kept us up the hill today, so I had to find my own flag. Prompt: It’s Memorial Day in Continue reading
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Some of Our Wildlife
Here’s a mini-tour of the some of the wildlife we see on our farm. This is a magpie. We have hundreds of these birds. While they’re pretty, they can also steal a lot of dog and chicken food. This here is a marmot hanging out in the rock wall. Continue reading
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Magpie
There’s not much visible wildlife on the farm today. I managed to catch this magpie on a branch, though. This was as close as I could get to it. Prompt: Sunday challenge time! Find any sort of wildlife today and make a photo. Get in close if you can, and focus on the eyes. Continue reading