Cow Country

[RanchRoper]

To the right are the Seven Sisters. Time, wind and erosion have taken a couple....

[RanchRoper]

At the range today (same photo as in range report without the sepia effect)...

[BigAl52]

Like I said more snow in SD that at RR house. Did you show that to the wife and tell her see I aint to bad at takin pics.

[RanchRoper]

We were just talking about that the other day, how now everybody is a photographer. Not that many years ago, a few people carried cameras and got great shots, now anybody with a cell phone gets them every day.

[JEBar]

At the range today (same photo as in range report without the sepia effect)...

way beyond beautiful

[BigAl52]

I use to work for Kodak in Windsor,Co. There now a skeleton of what they use to be. I remember those small compact cameras that you dropped in a film cartridge and when done you had to take it to the camera store to get it developed so you could see what you had. Now its instant like you said. We've come along way

[RanchRoper]

My wife still has and enjoys her Canon camera, it is a very nice one she got last year with a long distance lens attachment that looks like a blunderbuss. She takes excellent photos with it and can capture fast action at rodeos, etc. Yes, film was a big deal and she was always taking it for development. My mother still has boxes full of slide carousels at her place. Should put them on a disc or something, thousands of photos from 50's, 60's, 70's...summer vacations etc.

[BigAl52]

I think those big cameras are way cool but carrying one isnt what I care to do when Im on vacation or ect. So I guess the phone camera will do for now as my cell phone goes everywhere for now. Maybe someday when I float that river of retirement that camera along with the phone will fall into the river.

[RanchRoper]

I figure a couple more years of cell phone and then off the mobile grid.

[markiver54]

Probably a good idea RR. Everyone was just fine before all this tech stuff...right?...I think so.

[RanchRoper]

Cow country at -30F...

[PT7]

Although this poem was written describing a different part of the world other than Alberta, it seems to have captured the essence of the intense cold, chilling wind, and the pale light off deep snow seen in RR's photo. This is the first stanza of Rosseti's verse.

From an appreciative viewer of winter scenes, thanks for your post.
PT7

"In the bleak midwinter"
by Christina Rossetti

Published in the January 1872 issue of Scribner's Monthly and
now housed in the Public Domain.

In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.

[RanchRoper]

One has to learn to enjoy all the seasons.

[BigAl52]

Nice shot there RR but im not learnin to enjoy winter. Aint happenin

[markiver54]

Nice shot there RR but im not learnin to enjoy winter. Aint happenin

Totally agree Al! I cannot stand winter anymore. I used to snow ski when I was in my 20's. I even endured 20 years in Chicago......brutal!
I would have no problem decorating a palm tree at Christmas now though.

[RanchRoper]

You guys gotta channel and embrace your inner mountain man....you know, the guys that went up into the mountains and never came back...mostly cuz they died but that's bedsides the point.

[BigAl52]

Ya Im watchin Jeremiah Johnson from my easy chair with the heater on. Poor guy froze to death just trying to catch a fish for dinner.

[RanchRoper]

I've come close a few times looking for fish in the freezer...

[RanchRoper]

Elk on the range...

[PT7]

Those elk almost looked like they were posing for you, RR. Beautiful photo!