Weekly Grist Gallery, March 20, 2011
Shaggy calf, might moon, and controlled blaze
At the end of January 2011, we stumbled across Jimmy Michael and his Scottish Highland cattle. At the time he said we could expect to see some calves in the spring. Sure enough we did. On March 20, there was a moon for the ages. A week before we drove through a controlled burn in Calhoun County. At all of these scenes we did a controlled shoot.
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For now, we will call him "Little Mister Unnamed." This young calf has already taken on the docile behaviour traits by which his breed is known.
It appears that his mother and friends have his back.
Up close and personal with the Scottish Highland coiffure.
He finally decided that he would stand up and take a look.
Keeping an eye on junior.
Blondie, the Scottish Highland cow gives her heifer calf a little bit of shade.
The calf switches to the "udder" side.
The super-moon on March 20 took an orange glow until it had well cleared the horizon.
The moon over Lake Langhofer in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The lake is popularly known as "slack water," and is the west end of slack-water harbor which forms the Port of Pine Bluff.
Driving through Calhoun County, Arkansas, south of Hampton, I came upon a "controlled burn." I never laid eyes on the "controllers." The old tree looks like this is not its first controlled or uncontrolled burn.
A little breeze whipped up the flames. This is just a few feet from the highway right-of-way.
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