Baby elk in a field of yellow flowers.....

Day lily, Brocaded gown

Annual poppy.

You gotta' admit it. Mom Nature is talented.

In one of my front yard flower beds.

This isn't a great shot or anything, but just wanted to share what decided to hatch a few days early. Heard lots of cheeping just a short time ago.

oh, baby ducklings! Look at the size of the bill already!

HEY LM3, do you make your own cheese? I just saw a recipe for halloumi cheese which is made from goat and sheep's milk.

I used to do my own cheese, but haven't in close to a year now. We keep the babies with the moms normally so don't give us much milk. I'm no longer milking Butter. Her supply has worked itself out now so Marji gets all her mom's milk. I will look into that cheese though, I've never heard of it before. FYI you can make loads of other hard cheese with goats milk. Our problem is we don't have the restraint to let them ripen, we're always eating them "green".

I can imagine the price of halloumi, so I can just sub feta I'm sure.

I like how we are derailing this thread with talk of cheese. So I looked it up and I didn't realize from your post above it was a mixture of the two types of milk. I've had sheep cheese before (soft spread one) but my sheep do not have good enough udders for milking. There teats are teenie tiny. PITA to milk. Also, though I'm sure it would be good as a cheese, last year I did try sheep milk for the first time from our sheep and thought it was soooo disgusting. I'm sure it would be good in a cheese though since it was very strong. I have done feta before and it was very easy and very good. It looks like a similar concept, just different bacterial culture. I love cheese.

Felicite et Perpetue (1827)

To get this back on track, this is the gladiola that's growing in the front flower bed. I love the markings that look like splashes of paint.

Sitting at the beach watching the waves come in.
And the great treasure hunter at work.

That's a lot of mouths to feed!

I told a co-worker I was going to visit friends in North Carolina this past weekend, she told me to be careful because of the recent shark attacks. I said that wouldn't be a problem since I was going to Charlotte, hundreds of miles from the coast. However when we got to our friend's place I found this on the bed: