OK, here’s another on this theme of farm animals as Christmas ambassadors. My favourite part of Christmas is the few days just before…the anticipation and preparations, the baking, wrapping, decorating, organizing of bedrooms and juggling of schedules. I hope all of you have time and space in your life to enjoy these special days, remembering that every day is a treasure.
Here’s another offering of Christmas cheer for everyone who drops by my blog. I’m not sure why all the Christmas imagery this year, but I’ll have no shortage of material for Christmas cards. Look out Hallmark!
When I visited Polly today and walked the prairie, I flushed a covey of Hungarian Partridge…but since there’s not a pear tree in sight I guess we’ll have to make do with these silly geese!
What’s funnier than a chicken? Can anyone tell me? If I ever really need a laugh, I go and hang out with my friends chickens. The dramatics and the hysterics are endless. This looks like a pretty calm moment here, but trust me, that hen on the right is mad as a hatter. Aside from comic relief, I enjoy the effects of bright sun on feathers, the goofy faces and the exaggerated body language of chickens. Wish I had some of my own!
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As you can see, Jilly knows her aunt very well…chickens and sunflowers!
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The last time I was through the little hamlet of Dorothy on the Red Deer River, I found this little clutch of red hens, free-ranging it out amongst the sagebrush. When I find scenes like this, I get that powerful nostalgic feeling that hankers for an older, simpler time. Meanwhile, I’m checking my smartphone to see if I have any emails.
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You want to talk about bird-brains, I think guineafowl are the poster-kids! While they don’t appear to share a single brain amongst them they certainly are interesting to look at. The plumage is eye-dazzling with it’s dizzying patterns of white dots and dashes on black, all of this on a pear-shaped body. Add to that the clown-faces with the funny red wattles, featherless blue heads and wild Mohawk hairdos, and it makes for a hilarious combo I must say. Originating from Africa, home of many exotic creatures, I think these might be the best proof yet of Mother Nature’s quirky sense of humour.
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One of my favourite local haunts is Echo-Dale Farm. Located in a beautiful coulee on the south side of the S. Saskatchewan River, it is a restored farm/ Regional Park. There’s a fabulous swimming hole, boating lake, bar-b-q spots and the lovingly restored farm buildings. There are wagons and farming utensils in the shed, and heavy horses to pull them, a flock of assorted poultry (we all love poultry, right!?), a working blacksmith shop, and fresh bread baking in that gorgeous old log house. I was definitely born 100 years too soon.
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| I just love chickens…what can I say. Now that I don’t have to clean out the henhouse like I did as a kid, or stand at the kitchen sink and clean them on butchering day, I feel very nostalgic about them. I think it’s the the clucky noises, and the clownish antics. They crack me up. (get it?) This entry is especially for my friend Harold LaCoste because I know he loves chickens too. SOLD |
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Here’s one haywire piece of poultry. A person can’t visit the chicken yard without this one flinging herself around the place, madly flapping and squawking. I caught her here in a rare moment of non-frenzy & thought we should have a painting to commemorate it. SOLD
