This morning began with a visit to the local clinic to see our FNP, Kathy.  Our little Katelyn has been sick with a cold for awhile now and she started getting progressively worse over the last couple of days.  Baby Kate just hasn’t been her happy little self…

Long story short, she has a double ear infection, croup, and cold sores in her mouth.   It’s no wonder the poor baby hasn’t been sleeping well. Poor kid!!

Anyway, as we drove out I looked over at the corrals and I saw this….

…with this on top of it….

Neither of which fit in too well with this….

….or this….

I continued to drive and as I headed down the lane, I saw Buck feeding cows…. and there was a man on the bale wagon with him….

Do you see the man in the black wheel?  He is not a new ranch hand, nor is he a friend who came to visit.  That man, in the black wheel, is a photographer.   He was riding on the bale wagon keeping his camera steady on the bale in front of him while he snapped pics of Buck.  I’m surprised he wasn’t talked into driving the pick-up, as it was driverless this morning.  At any rate, I really wish I could’ve gotten a shot of the photographer with his big zoom lens right in my cowboy’s face.  But it was starting to do this….

(which I refuse to acknowledge since it’s SPRING week here at Cowgirl Clippings ;-) and I was in a hurry to get my babe to the clinic.  I did feel paparazzi-ish not only taking their picture, but doing the whole black wheel thing with it on my computer. 

What, you ask, is that photographer doing with Buck??  He is from “The Oregonian” and is following a writer who came last week to do a story about cowboys.  Now, Buck  is used to me occassionally taking pictures… with Mt.Joseph towering behind him…

But when I saw that enormous zoom lens (one I wouldn’t mind having!) just inches from my cattle-feeding cowboy this morning, I couldn’t help but wonder who was more out of their element… my Buckaroo or the photographer from “The Oregonian”….

…or maybe it was a tie…??

–Chelsea