Cow Country

[RanchRoper]

Out for a ride this morning before I start doing some work around home. The 1860 Henry on board. Badger takes a brunch break.

[RanchRoper]

Shiny!

[CT_Shooter]

Out for a ride this morning before I start doing some work around home. The 1860 Henry on board. Badger takes a brunch break.

Fabulous photos, RR. Thanks again, Cowboy!

[Dennis H]

Looks like Badgers leggin up.

[RanchRoper]

Yes I'm riding much more now.

[DAVIDF]

Every time I see your photos I want to buy an 1860. And, for that matter, get out of Central Florida and head north west!

[RanchRoper]

Way too humid for me in Florida! I don't know how your ranchers do it down there. The 1860 is so much fun to shoot!

[daytime dave]

That over the saddle shot is a great photograph if I might say so.

[DAVIDF]

Way too humid for me in Florida! I don't know how your ranchers do it down there. The 1860 is so much fun to shoot!

I've spent the vast majority of my life here and never fully acclimated. I've done a lot of triathlons, duathlons, and bike racing and my running performance would drop off significantly in the heat during mid-day. And that would be the time frame I would be running during the longer races. Everyone's performance will drop off when the temperature rises above a certain point, but mine would decrease way more than those similarly trained.

I am not sure how the ranchers do it either. I work in an office that is kept freezing cold. I have to keep something warm to wear at my desk, no matter the time of year. As I get older, I am appreciating the cold temperature of my office more and more

[RanchRoper]

Out for a long early morning ride. Break time. Burmis mtn in the background. In the forest reserve.

[RanchRoper]

Couple more. Gorgeous day. I love BIG skies.

Looking west through Badger's ears toward Hillcrest. The mountain in the distance was covered with forest until 2003 when the Lost Creek fire burned it. It's starting to come back now.

[RanchRoper]

A couple of oldies from 2011 on the a7 Ranch. Sorting yearlings that had just come from a feedlot. This was in April 2011 I think. Riding our late great mare Magic. She LOVED cattle work. Miss her every day.

[daytime dave]

Those are beautiful photographs. In the last photographs, I'm reminded of the fictional Quigley that Tom Selleck played. Very tall in the saddle looking.

I hope it's all right, but I am planning to use the photo of Badger grazing with the mountain on the left for my summer background computer shot. I haven't taken anything near as good yet this year.

[RanchRoper]

Badger says go for it!

[RanchRoper]

Someone shared this photo of Dakota and I roping in the pasture last summer. Just treating cows. This was on the Waldron grazing co-op range.

[Sir Henry]

I hadn't viewed this thread in awhile. You really have some great pictures here.

[RanchRoper]

Coming from a photographer like yourself, thank you!

[Henry88]

That is just NUTS RR.

[daytime dave]

That just says Cowboy all day long. Thank you for posting it.

That just might be my third RR displayed photograph.

[RanchRoper]

I'm blessed to ride exceptional horses. I just try to stay out of their way and let them make me look good.