No food? No problem. More time for a good scratch on farm equipment.  

The sheep have given up waiting for a hand-out and are off into the woods.  

I met this Hiyak gal going out for her morning stroll. We grunted greetings to each other.  

The morning exodus begins. These gals are watching the sheep heading for the hills.  

Another part of the barn was still dark and seemed to contain darker shadows. Once my eyes had adjusted I discovered these three calmly checking me ou (...)

The barns look abandoned but they are still full of lazy beasties reluctant to face the day's challenges - eat, poop, eat, poop, chase fox, eat, poop. (...)

The sun continued to rise. Its funny that way, quite predictable too.  

Stepping into the light. If you stand tree tall you will have greater vision all around; your wisdom will grow like a crown when your thoughts are roo (...)

As I headed back toward the house I noticed some rapid motion in the field behind. A quick reaction with the telephoto lens brought these running deer (...)

The feeder hangs by the studio window. The birds didn't seem to mind my presence.  

I don't know much about hummingbird identification. This may be the female and the previous shot shows the male.  

A nearby sculpture by Rosemary provides a handy perch close to the feeders. I was taking pictures from inside the studio.  

Later that evening, friends of Rosemary dropped by. Of course, Georgina took the opportunity to be the center of attention.  

"She's such a sweetie!"  

Ivan had been doing a pretty good imitation of a dead dog. He also has a pretty good camera detector. As soon as I trained the lens on his corpse he f (...)

I'm still trying to get Lyla to relax in my presence. She's coming around slowly but is often uncertain of her status in the pack. Time will tell.  

The sun began to make its usual rounds. The day would not take long to heat up and make all seek the shady nooks where errant zephyrs could find them. (...)

Chai doesn't have a problem with me - I'm just another fur person to him. He does have a problem with waking up. Today was particularly hard. It had m (...)

In the far distance, Yaks were fading away into the woods, wading through pools of sunlight.  

Ivan winding down after a night barking horrible threats to the predators in the woods.