No birds OK, well maybe a few, look, Horses!
Apparently Dusty doesn’t like the taste of snowflakes;) Yes, 2nd Winter is here. His face seems to say: “How many days until Spring?” The snow squalls can stop anytime now!
Sunday is barn day, helping out as best we can, a bit of human socializing, not just cats, but yes, with cats, and donkeys and horses and humans:) Snow squalls were forecast last Sunday, ya gotta love snowflakes right? Now, how to go about capturing them in the cold and wind…take lots of shots! The lowest F stop you can go, these were F5 ISO 1600 1/3200 sec and I was having trouble with the autofocus focusing on the snowflakes in front of my nose and not the horse…always something this photography stuff!
The worst, I forgot the bag of carrots…:( luckily I was saved by the box of sugar cubes! Whew….The donkeys pretty much refused to come out of the shed, smart little fuzzy creatures! I was trying to get them at the entrance to the shed that would have given me a dark background to highlight the snow flakes but…have you ever worked with large animals? Yeah…We once tried to get donkeys with Christmas scarves on, it was like watching a Benny Hill/Monty Python production…Ha!
Art, or just out of focus? Ha! The adapter for the camera lens was also wigging out, it does that when it gets cold. Time to get back to cleaning stalls!
This is such a happy place:) We get to feed Ringo, the 18 year old patriarch of the barn cats, his serving of fresh fish, it’s called “Paying the troll” for passage, I bring a cut up fish fillet every time. He is quite the sight, matted and dirty, but oh so happy and well loved with his heated water bowl and heated house. Alice is always ready to greet you at the barn, sometimes halfway down the driveway, the most cheerful cat I have ever met. I need to try to get her in a fashion snow photo shoot, she prefers hanging out in the hayloft with Mike as he brings bales of hay down! There is a new gentleman as well, Pewter, the grey tom, we’ll work on getting his shot as well, he’s pretty wary. Not to mention the racoons…one must come at feeding time to capture them!
It’s a wonderful world of fur and fuzz. Today we have been awarded a day above freezing, this must be Spring of deception;) Ha! Friday, tomorrow night’s forcast is back to -17° Celsius…I can do one night then maybe, just maybe this snow will start to go and we can see the ground again! Until then, the views are not too bad and it’s interesting to watch the deer tracks across the lake:) What can I offer to the weather Gods for more sun? Ha! Stay warm amigos! Hasta pronto!
