A few more pictures

We've been working with a web designer to update our website a bit.  One of the tasks has been to get pictures of all of the Dexters.  Sounds easy and it's something that I should have been doing all along.  It's that time of year when the sun is mostly not shining and everything looks to be a shade of gray (except the red girls, who merely look washed out).  If I get a good picture of the cow, there's usually something else that I didn't notice (like a big pile of steaming poop or hay sticking out of an ear or another cow intruding into the picture).  Ugh.

Anyway, I did get some fun shots even with poop piles and hay and other cow parts sticking out.  Here are a few:

This is White Rock Scarlet (known as Bitty around here) and her buddy Moosters River Dance.  They are the same age - born a day apart.  Bitty is a chondro carrier and River is not.  We love them both.  Bitty has learned to be a very assertive young heifer.  Her shorter stature means she has to work harder for many things.  When she first arrived here, we had to put a shorter water tank out for her because she couldn't reach water in the "regular" one unless it was completely filled.  She loves treats and literally bulldozes her way to me through the rest of the heifers to get one.  She makes me laugh.  She's the most serious heifer ever.

Bess, the mother of our next herd sire.  Notice Xinger in the background (I didn't) and the wonderful poop piles.  It looks like Xinger is levitating.  And the gray look of everything.....Some day I'll get a suitable photo.

When the sun is out, I have to remember where it is so I'm not part of the picture.

Sometimes one is just good enough.  Here's Twizzler with her milk face going on.  She always has a milk face - always!

And shadows - funny how you don't notice them when you are taking the picture!  Here's our very very pregnant Tracy.  She's due in early January.  I predict another calf in the living room before it's over.

This is the face that most often appears in my camera....  He just can't help himself.