By the Light of Cell Phone

By the Light of a Cell Phone ~

Yesterday afternoon I feel the familiar rattle of a horse trailer going by. I look outside just in time to see Dad's aluminum trailer bouncing down the gravel road. I call Dad & he says "We're going to cut studs. Come down if you want." Well, seems like a grand way to spend the evening & a great chance to snap some pictures. I haven't been down to this neighbors coral since I was young. After being lost for a few minutes I make my way down in the field with my car....which I have to leave along side the road when the creek crosses the road. Just as I was examining the best spot to try to jump the creek...Someone came down & picked me up. (luckily...I'm not sure I would have cleared it & I'm glad I didn't have to find out :)

Here are some pictures from the evenings events:

Starting out across the pen to catch one

Hot Pursuit

Catch 'em on the Corner

The Throw

Your Turn Partner

Vaquero

Big Loops

Escape Artist

Sagebrush & Sunsets

SO....I almost forgot! The header lost his rope. I was on the youngest person on the ground crew so I run over to the corner to grab his rope for him. This happened a few times. No big deal. Well, I slide in on the last horse to grab the rope off of the ground.....all the sudden I look up in time to yell & JUMP sideways out of the line of fire! Two head of horses HEADED OUT of the corner &thru me appeared to be the path of least resistance! They missed me by atleast a foot :)
Thank the good Lord above for protecting the ignorant! :)

Big Sky & Big Dreams

It was quite the wild evening! Right at Dusk we had a visitor in a Motorized Flying Vehicle float over the corrals & wave hello. I thought for sure that would be the coolest thing to happen but it was quickly topped when Dad jerked out his cell phone as a light to see to cut the last horse.

Sunset Pictures from night before last just out the back yard! The human eye is spectacular...the power of it's lens & everything that it can take it.....simply AMAZING! No man made camera can do it justice but here is a small glimpse of the beauty I saw that night.

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