Of course, I'd have to throw a cattle picture in... I call it: Steers In Snow. (Featuring Silage Truck)
One could almost dub Owyhee County the Land of Power Poles. They're everywhere, and a person can scarcely take a picture without getting at least one in there. I used to despair over this fact (okay, maybe not "despair") but now I've embraced them. (they're slivery) When I zoom in it squishes them up together, giving a nifty effect of some sort.
It doesn't last long here. Snow, that is. By evening it remained only in places of significant perpetual shadow. This morning it was reinforced with a bit of frost, but I would be surprised if any lasted through the week. At the very least the snow gave me enough inspiration to put up a post. With three pictures too!
Enjoy your Wednesday! (Or don't... It's up to you really.)
Your January winter scenes reminds me of one year when it was an open winter around Homedale. It might have been 1958. My dad worked for the South Board of Control, running a bulldozer and patrol road grader. A couple of us boys were hired to drive dump trucks to line the bottom of a section of the main canal coming out of Owyhee Reservoir. Each morning it was clear and almost frost free. What a great time we had out there on the ditch banks--a fine January (ask Papa about the winter of 1949-50. Brrr).
ReplyDeleteOnce we went with two full time employees in a pickup over the dirt road from the end of the siphon to the dam. They had a telephone with them and they'd go up the telephone pole and connect the phone leads to the wires and call in to the office. I think Felicia E. answered the phone in those days. I forget why we went up over that dirt road to the reservoir, but it was a great experience. And no snow, not even up on the Owyhee Breaks. Thanks for those great photos, Mark.