This Week on Our Homestead - Mr. Coyote

“Coyotes move within a landscape of attentiveness. I have seen their eyes in the creosote bushes and among mesquite trees. They have watched me. And all the times that I saw no eyes, that I kept walking and never knew,

there were still coyotes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

"When I have seen them trot away,
when I have stepped from the floorboard of my truck, leaned on the door,
and watched them as they watched me
over their shoulders,
 

 

 

 

"I have been aware for that moment
of how much more there is.
Of how I have only seen only an instant

of a broad and rich life.”  

--Craig Child, The Animal Dialogues:

Uncommon Encounters in the Wild

 

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Deer Talk

"Hey! Do you see what I see, Mom? Another grownup."

"Uh, I wouldn't go down there if I were you."

"Hey! Get your face out of the snow. I'm trying to talk to you."

"Ok, fine. I know when I'm not wanted. . .Hey, Mom! Wait for me!"

The deer around our homestead are a never-ending source of entertainment.

Enjoy your weekend.

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Patient Mother

Photographically captured this gentle scene 

outside our home this week. 

I love this place where I live.

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Play Time

Earlier last week I watched our neighbor's horses frolick around the corral in a light sprinkling of snow. By the time I retrieved my camera they had stopped. I was disappointed, but then they began nuzzling and nibbling each other and 

I ended up with this playful shot. 

Blessings,

Nancy

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Nancy

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Meditation in Velvet

Taken July 2011 in Rocky Mountain National Park

Deer lose their antlers and must grow a new set every year (same with elk). A velvet covering (as you see on this buck's antlers) protects the antlers until they have fully developed. At that point the velvet sheds. Protein and minerals are needed for antler growth, in contrast to horns -- such as found on bighorn sheep -- which are made of keratin (like our fingernails) and only require protein for optimal growth. Horns are not shed; new growth is added on to the old. 



Summer and winter and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.

Great is Thy faithfulness! 

Great is Thy faithfulness! 

Morning by morning new mercies I see.

All I have needed Thy hand hath provided;

Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!

Thomas Obadiah Chisolm, Composer (1866-1960) 

Blessings,


Nancy

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Peaceful Co-Existence

Estes Park, Colorado

"To find new things, take the path you took yesterday." 

~ John Burroughs

"The earth is the LORD’S, and all it contains, 

The world, and those who dwell in it."

Psalm 24:1

Blessings.

Nancy

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