ELK AND STRANGE CLOUDS

Been seeing quite a few elk around our place.  In fact, the last two mornings I have ran into a cow while irrigating and she must have a calf hid near the route I take walking down to the meadow.  Yesterday she was a ways off when I walked down, but today on the way back she was much closer - and I had Zeph with me.  He saw her and loped up towards her.  She did not give an inch and looked like she was about to take him when I finally got him to come back.  I had him heel and we turned away from her and walked away.  She had her nostrils flared and just looked like she was ready to take us on.  I kept looking back but she never left nor took her eyes off of us.  Of course I never had a camera with me.  I did have one when Connie and I went for a ride later this morning though.  We came upon a fat old cow that looks like she was close to calving, but I don't think she had a calf yet.  We turned and left her in her little clearing she was in.  And speaking of not have a camera, we were on our way back from running into Corvallis this afternoon when I saw some very pretty clouds that had a rainbow in them.  We drove back to the house as fast as we could and I grabbed my big camera and took a few pictures but the angle and size had changed.  Still unusual though.

The rose bushes are starting to bloom.

The clouds from the old fire pit.

The fat old cow.