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After a short phone call and an invitation, we piled the kids and my parents into the car to drive the 25 miles to Abbeville to visit another Sheep Farmer/Handspinner we met recently. We were greeted by a Great Pyrenee Dog with a resounding WOOF, and a snoozing cat on the window sill, who was enjoying the warm evening sun and the beautiful view of Lake Seccession. We strolled over to the Stable area, where her newest arrivals were ready to meet us - with lots of baaah, baaaah, maaah, meeeeh, baaaah of the cutest sort they were just three days old, black, wooly and very, very cute lamby things. The kids were ecstatic - each of them got to hold one, and the lambs actually seemed to enjoy that even better than following the grumpy mom around.
One of them decided that noses are good for something other than smelling them - and latched on to my daughters nose, drawing out loud giggles and squeals from her. Misguided little sheep... We met Thomas the goat that wears a yoke to keep him from climbing the fence (the goat that also happens to not care if he has a yoke and that climbs the fence anyway), Anna the Donkey that bites fingers and carrots equally well, sheep of all kind of personalities, and two of them rather horny ones (guess they were thrilled the gals finally stood still at the gate while we were scratching their heads - they seized the opportunity, and the sheep, so to speak. Fortunately, the kids are not too impressed with the process of baby sheep being produced, so there were no explanations needed then and there...). The backlight on the sheep was stunning - of course, my camera stayed at home, so I can't even share pictures of it in real life. I'll try using some of those impressions on my upcoming work though - nothing says peaceful evening like a meadow with grazing sheep backlit by a golden sunset in front of a lake... If I can get some of Dad's pics, I'll try including those tomorrow. For old times' sake, here are some is an older landscape I created a while back: Title: Rainbow Lake
Size: 24" x 48 "
Media: oils on canvas
Price: $1500 
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