WILDERNESS

Dall Sheep in Denali National Park, Alaska in May 2018

“Wilderness is a necessity there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.”

~John Muir~

FENCES AROUND THE WORLD

If you would like to see other fences around the world, or join in with your own, you will find the link here. Thank you for hosting Gosia.

Sorry I am late joining in but I am still hobbled with my laptop, which isn't working properly yet.  Hubby is doing wonders and is almost at a solution.  However, I am plodding on with my iPad in the meantime, and yes I love my iPad but there are things on there that I can't do.  I will be slow visiting your blogs but hope after the weekend to be back to normal.  Thanks so much for your comments.  I will catch up eventually.

I am continuing on from yesterday's blog post.  These photos belong to my niece and nephew in Germany.  They visited another flock of sheep after sheering their own three, as the owners told them there were new lambs to see.  As there were fences in most of the photos, I definitely had to put these on today for Gosia's meme.

Adorable!

This will be the end of my sheep photos for a while, but there will be more eventually I'm sure. Another big thank you to my niece and nephew for letting me share their photos.

A lot of sad things going on right now that are absolutely heartbreaking, and my heart, thoughts and prayers go to everyone who is having to deal with them.  Wishing everyone peace, good health and love for one another.

SHEEP

I am grateful to my niece for today's photos.  She and her husband live in Germany, and they have three pet sheep they keep at the top of their garden.  There is a large piece of land for them to roam, a nice shelter to go into if the weather takes a turn, a stream with fresh spring water that runs through the property, plenty of tasty grass to eat, plus whatever they need in every way, and are given a whole lot of love.  Last weekend it was sheep-sheering time for all three.

Not exactly their favorite thing to get done maybe, but they must feel great having their old winter coat taken off.  Aren't those horns amazing?

All done!

All taken care of...

and off they go!

With thanks to my niece and nephew again for letting me share their photos today. I will have more on Friday.

A LITTLE LAMB

Here is a photo of a lamb my niece took three days ago.  When they, my niece and nephew, shared it with me, I asked if I could put their photo on my blog and they said yes. I will have more in a few days.  Thank you My Darlings!

I found the following diagram online of all the different sheep there are.  Hopefully if you enlarge the photo, you will be able to see their names.

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!

Two posts in one day for me is unusual, but I didn't want any more time to go by before wishing those of you who are celebrating, A Happy Saint Patrick's Day! 

I am not sure how long it will be before we can get out again, so you will be seeing a lot of old and random photos in the near future.  I do have a few more recent ones I haven't shared,  and will get them done sometime.  Graphics today were found at Pixabay here. 

Take good care of yourselves out there, wishing you all happiness and good health, and once again, 
Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

MORE PHOTOS FROM FRYING PAN PARK

In my first two photos, and always on the look out for interesting bits of nature, Gregg pointed out the fungi growing on the fence.

Good Morning, I hope you all had a great weekend.  Ours was busy as we had company.  Strangely I took no photos, didn't even think of it as we had such a good time talking until after midnight.  

I fixed one of those cheat meals for dinner but we all enjoyed it. It had been a busy week and I had no time to cook or fix ahead.  We were going to be out all day and this seemed the way to go for dinner that night, to get something on the table fast.  I was serving up half an hour after we arrived home.

For an appetizer I had two types of cheeses with crackers, plus some dates and a few nuts put together on a cheese board.  I know where to get really great chicken noodle soup.  It is the next best thing to homemade.  We have known our friends for many years and they do not expect anything more than good company.  One of them recommended the soup.  I added butter croissant and for dessert individual portions of Tiramisu, the kind that comes in a small glass.  A bottle of wine, great conversation and the evening was perfect. 

Not sure what we will be doing during the upcoming week, not sure if I will be taking any photos but in the meantime here are a few more from Frying Pan Park.

A barn housing an old cider press...

and its history in the photos below.

Tired piggies!

And more tired piggies in the next stall.  They all have access to the outside.

I shared these goats in my previous post.

I found another goat in the field, too busy eating to pose for a portrait.

Far too busy feeding face for posing.  Note: clucking noises are of no help at such times.

If you saw my last post here, you will recognize this little charmer.

His brother was a hundred feet away having a snooze.

Brother looked like he would be following suit very soon.

There were signs asking us not to feed the horses as they were work horses.

This lovely cow was busy licking its trough, expectantly waiting for lunch.  We saw staff making their rounds feeding all the animals.

One expectant face looking through the fence.  Sorry little guy, no food but I can see it coming.

Thankfully these turkeys don't have to worry about making an appearance at the Thanksgiving table.

I read that for many years those turkeys who had been pardoned at the White House ceremony were sent here.

there will be

This post is dedicated to farmers everywhere, including those in our own family.

Thank you for stopping by.

FRYING PAN PARK

Our latest walk took us to Frying Pan Park.  We haven't been here for three years or more.  

One of the attractions of the park is Kidwell Farm, a working demonstration farm.  It recreates farming life that would have taken place in the 1930's and has many animals.  These include cows, horses, sheep, goats, chickens and a few more.  As you can see I was particularly taken with the new calf. 

It is free to get in so there are always families, a great place to bring small children.  There is an admission charge for special events. 

As well as the farm there is also the Frying Pan Meetinghouse which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places dating from the 18th century, and the Old Floris Schoolhouse, constructed in 1911.

No one really knows how the name Frying Pan came about, because the already named road was here before predated records, or so the story goes.  I got the following from the article found here.

One story is that when people camped by the water, in haste to leave the next morning they left their frying pan behind.  Depending on the time frame, these people could have been American soldiers from the War of 1812, copper miners from 1728 or native Americans before that.  Another theory comes from its geography. The 'run' (small stream) emptying into a round pool, suggested the name but its not clear which pool this story references.

The name Frying Pan is first seen in Virginia records in a 1728 deed from Lord Fairfax himself, when a man named Robert 'King' Carter bought the land to build a copper mine.

In 1892 the community petitioned the postal service to change its name.  They were sent several names to choose from and they selected "Floris".  I have only ever know this area to be called Frying Pan, and didn't know the name Floris until I read up on its history.

I will have more photos to share from Kidwell Farm another day.

Thank you for looking and also to those who are able to leave a comment, I appreciate it very much.  Wishing you all a great weekend.