Category Archives: Photographs

The grass is turning slowly with temperatures in the mid-80s, the ground still moist in most places from the last rains. It’s been a month since I’ve been to the Top and Sulphur, so I took salt, mineral and my camera up into Greasy, most all day. Cattle and feed look great, a few strays. We’ll be gathering to wean in the coming weeks, we’ll get them then.

I decided today that this is the most diverse wildflower year since I been trying to learn their names. But you’d never know it looking from the road because the green feed has been so tall these last few weeks, it’s outgrown the flowers. Two new ones today, plus some more Kaweah Brodiaea that has just begun to bloom. Though the Monkeyflower looks a little like the ‘Kaweah’, another ‘Rare and Endangered’ wildflower on CNPS’ list, it probably is the more common Manyflowered Monkeyflower.

Kaweah Brodiaea – May 3, 2012

Kaweah Brodiaea – May 3, 2012

Pearly Everlasting – May 3, 2012

Elegant Clarkia – May 3, 2012

Pink Spineflower (Chorizanthe membranacea) – May 3, 2012

Windmill Pink – May 3, 2012

Pretty Face, Golden Brodiaea – May 3, 2012

Ithuriel’s Spear, Grass Nut – May 3, 2012

Common Brodiaea, Wild Hyacinth, Blue Dicks – May 3, 2012

Manyflowered or Kaweah Monkeyflower? – May 3, 2012

Silver Bird’s-foot Trefoil – May 3, 2012

American Booklime (Veronica americana) – May 3, 2012

With nearly an inch of rain, skies cleared before sunset.

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…and welcome threat of rain, our first calf heifers with their Wagyu X calves got a little bogged down in our neighbor’s grass as we drove them to a pasture near our shipping corrals and scales. The calves will be processed for their 2nd round of vaccinations next week, then weaned and shipped about the third week in May. A beautiful day so far, waiting on some rain this evening to freshen everything up before the grass turns. Turned out to be a pretty fair feed year after all! Hope the latest ‘Mad Cow’ flack doesn’t impact the price too much—always something.