Too Fast For Pictures

I carry my handy dandy little pocket camera wherever I go. I have had it in my pocket when I trek into the woods, while I run a chainsaw and during those long summer days bucking hay or driving tractor. I have it during the snowy winter days when feeding cows, planting seedlings, cultivating the riparian areas and when out for a stroll along the county road picking up trash.

I do not keep my phone or my handy camera on me when I am  in the river, splashing around and putting up the barriers to keep the cows on my property, rock hounding, or just cooling off. One slip on those slick rocks and my technology (even though it is dated and well worn) would be toast and I would be up a river without it.

Even with my camera within reach at 99.999% of the time, I still miss those wondrous photos that I have come to enjoy sharing with my readers. Like walking up on a herd of elk as they are grazing, or when they run careening around me as they go a different direction than I want them to. I have missed documenting the births of newborn calves since my arms are busy at the working end of the bovine instead of snapping pics, or when tethering a stuck rig to pull it out of a precarious pothole on a slippery slope, or when the bald eagles fly right over where I am working.

Even the other day, I wanted to show how the dogs are behaving this time of year with the two newborns with their mothers in the nursery field. Both dogs are deliberate in their sniffing to find the calf poop wherever it is in the field. They start with the source and smell each baby, sometimes while they are still sleeping. The dogs don’t hurt the calves but sniff them from stem to stern in the hopes that there is a pile around there somewhere. The older calf, NinetyNine, does not like the idea of the dog snooping and will run out of the area rather than get the sniff test. The newborn, Titan, is much more relaxed about the whole thing and usually doesn’t even acknowledge the dogs in their investigation.

During all the sniffing, I tried to get a picture of the dogs in action but they were so quick, all I got was shots of the cows, babies and a tail or nose of a dog as they air plow their way this way and that.

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