by Carol Conklin | Aug 6, 2010
The horse is my very favorite subject and I find a comfortable relationship with the tjanting tool ( the brass or copper bowl that holds wax and allows an artist to make lines of wax). This is used to creat my horses with flowing and flying manes. The horse and fast...
by Carol Conklin | Aug 2, 2010
It has been a long time since the mountains could be seen in the morning and today is no exception. The trend lately has been hot and very humid and a heavy mist has settled into the fields, forests and valleys.The distant farms are not visible at all.The morning air...
by Carol Conklin | Jul 23, 2010
An ideal clover patch for the cows to produce lots of high energy milk. It has a beauty all of its own before the teeth and hooves make their trek through the field.The herd greets the camera as they graze the new strip along the ever moving fenceline of the Alice...
by Carol Conklin | Jul 23, 2010
Here are the photos of our herd from years past that show the actual reality of how the cows cast themselves across the fields while they are grazing. They start at the back of the barnyard on the hillside and then make the trek out to the field over their stream...
by Carol Conklin | Jul 22, 2010
They eagerly pass through an alley after milking and bypass several closed gates. As they reach the pasture of the day and step through the gate, the line of cows or sheep spreads out happily in all directions. The pasture has been growing for three weeks since it was...
by Carol Conklin | Jul 2, 2010
Here is the batik I mentioned before in the blog post.
by Carol Conklin | Jul 2, 2010
This morning, as I like to do on those mornings I’m not milking, I walked up the hill behind my house to practice Tai Chi. Up there, I leave my worries behind. They are insignificant as I look out on the expansive view. The bright sun and clouds work together to...
by Carol Conklin | Jun 24, 2010
The summer season is upon us. The brilliant early green replaced by golden heads of grasses and the yet unmowed fields, hold many colored flowers from the blossoms of red and white clovers, yellow trefoil flowers, blue vetch and purple/ blue alfalfa with mixes of...
by Carol Conklin | Jun 4, 2010
Steppin’ grazing happily close by to the house now. We are now in the 3rd trimester of the pregnancy, relaxing and growing hopefully a healthy calf! So I am trying to encourage a calm environment for all of us. She is surrounded by flowering bushes, wildlife and...
by Carol Conklin | Jun 4, 2010
I awaken with the usual stiffness and pain in my back and look out at the fog. This morning I will not be milking and take time to do some extra stretching and limbering exercises with Cutest, our eleven year old cat, who also has her stretching routine. The...
