Animal Wednesday from A friend's Farm

We had a delightful visit last week with Cris and Con (follow link to Cris' blog and meet all her animals again and again! ) on their little mini farm, in Roseburg, Oregon. Actually we had two visits with them. One on our way up to Portland to visit our family there, and one on the way back.

We got to meet the sheep they have grazing in their field behind their house. Cris is feeding carrots to the big sheep above.

My husband had fun meeting all the chickens and learning their names.



I was pleased with how well my photos came out.



And Daisy the cat rested in the sun room where we all gathered to chat when we weren't outside in the yard.

Cris has a beautiful garden full of blooming daisies, hydrangeas, petunias, and roses, among others. It was so pretty sitting out there and seeing them all.

We also had play time with Annie and Milo, the two dogs in residence.

Thanks Cris for lending your models for my Animal Wednesday Post this week!

Animal Wednesday: Henry Says Hi and Oh Look At All This Local Wildlife!

As you might expect Henry was quite miffed at us for being left at the Pet Hotel for yet another five day stint when we took off for Oregon over the July 4th long weekend. (a mere week between that trip and our two week road trip prior) He barely looked at us when we went to pick him up, hid in fact behind some boards in the room...he's warming up more now since it's been a while at home. But he becomes skittish if we even look or act like we might be going somewhere, then he skedaddles quickly upstairs to hide. But he is here today to wish you all a happy Animal Wednesday!

These animals were found on our day out and about last Saturday...we live about five miles from where we found these chickens in a friendly man's backyard (DH was looking over his tools for sale in his ultra neat garage, while I perused his livestock...)

We drove down a country road spying this fellow on his horse. He got further and further away but the 24x optical zoom on my new camera caught up with him anyway... That's a field of sunflowers on his left.

This guy down another road just stood and stared me down!

I like how my camera focused on the wire fence and left the livestock a blur in the background.

Looks like a nice painting to me, no?

This graceful ostrich found some shade to cool off in.

I never cease to be amazed at who we find in our neighborhood.

This of course is one of our beloved burrowing owls...a young one.

And this, is NOT an animal but looks like it might be a goose; a kind woman sold it to me for ten cents freshly picked that morning from her garden! We ate it for dinner and it was delicious.

;-)

Happy Animal Wednesday!