Shy Sheep

Lamb shelter complete with salvaged roofing tin. The lambs have checked it out and have seemed to approve.

They are still shy sheep. They think they are hiding.

Father's Day

Marshal's Father's Day gift to himself and his dad was "hangtown fry" at Seeds in LaConner. The unbeatable breakfast plate for the men in my family is cornmeal crusted pan-fried, fresh Puget Sound oysters atop a delicious medley of farm fresh eggs, bacon, spinach, red onion, and garlic scramble. These are accompanied by fried red potatoes, flax seed toast, and homemade raspberry jam. They love it so much, it makes us all "almost" drool over oysters!

DADS

Grandpa and Grandma (Dad and Mom) coming this weekend to visit made this day extra special.

New Additions

We brought home Shetland lambs last night. They are wilder than anything and home in the dog kennel for a couple nights. Thought we might be able to tame them a bit in close quarters. No such thing, yet.

Building a portable sheep shelter, a little A frame, since the lambs love the dog house so much!

Grooming Tirza this past week, she lost at least half her hair to my scissors and brush.

Another garden pic in evening light with rainbow.

A sunset with a jet passing overhead from last week.

Flag Day

"On June 14, 1877, the flag had a birthday - a big one. It was 100 years old." Red, White, and Blue, The Story of the American Flag, by John Herman
That makes Old Glory 234 years old today!
"God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her and guide her, through the night with the light from above." I wrote these words as Lydia sang them out beside me. I echo the prayer.

Sunday Sunrise

Psalm 50:1, A Psalm of Asaph, "The Mighty One, God the LORD, has spoken and called the earth
From the rising of the sun to its going down."

Tirza woke me up this morning around 5:30 am, and I was greeted by the sunrise. The sight superseded the sleep disruption on a Sunday morning. It was almost too bright to get a photo with the sun reflecting in the bay and sun dots on my lens. The sun showed itself a liquid fire ball in the heavens and in its reflection. Oh, will the sight of YAWEH, so much more so, consume and overwhelm us one day.

Sundown

Capturing Marshal filling the birdfeeder and the late light of the day.
Here are our garden plots! "Three Sisters," bantam sweet corn, pole beans, and squashes in the far garden bed with mounds. Fish heads from our Kettle Falls trip are under four of the mounds.
We also planted a bed of ever-bearing strawberries on Sunday afternoon to Marshal's great satisfaction! Radishes, lettuces, spinach, turnips, beets, carrots, onions, cilantro, and sunflowers are up!
Deck pots! And look at those amber waves of grass.

Last Game of the Season - Almost!

This would have been the last game of the season, but for a rained out make-up game next week. This was a the first day of warm sunshine in the stands, and the Diamond Backs played a long undefeated team. The game was pure excitement and suspense from beginning to end. Every team member played their best, and D-Backs beat the Dodgers 11-10 in the final stretch. My lens is focused on player number 6.

And he's off to take a base!

Still frames of a fast pitch make me think, "Baseball Ballet".
Or Karate Kid stance... Standing Crane.
Concentration and power.

Back to ballet, you see.