Clothes Line, Polarizers and Reverse Lens Macro.

Mmmm, there's nothing quite like hangin' your clothes out on a clothes line! Somehow, the sun has a way of making things feel really clean and fresh!

The lilacs are blooming at our place now. The aroma is really strong, you can smell it on the other side of the house. Our Grandma from California really likes lilacs, so it was just in time to bloom!

Apparently there is going to be a Trader Joe's in Boulder and Denver. I knew of the Boulder one, but not the Denver one, which means it will be even closer to drive to. Our Grandpa from California worked at TJ for a long time, so it's a popular store in our family.

The weather has been phenomenal! On our last day of work for this week, it rained really heavy, not very much, it was a fairly short rain, but it poured.  

 I used a polarizer filter to make the sky really rich. When I climbed up on top of the shed, our cows kept looking up there like "Hey, what are you doing up there? I want up there!" They were mooing and looking up at me the whole time. 

Again, I used a polarizer to make the sky look a bit darker, giving it sort of a dark, moody look.

For this shot, I used reverse lens macro to get even closer to my subject.

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Green Field, Rabbit Problems and Birds

Well, my brother and I went back to work today. Our boss hired some men to take a lot of the scrap away, so that took a huge load of our backs. It sounds as though, we'll be doing some fencing too. 

I think we have a barn swallow starting a nest in our cow shed. We keep seeing it fly up to a beam just underneath the roof. 

So, this year, do any of you have an extreme rabbit problem? We have quite a lot of them here, and there are tons at our job too. Our boss does not like them at all! 

I hope we get some more rain soon! It would be really great for our grass, so we can graze our animals again.

Our friends keep their dog on a leash, so she won't do anything she might regret afterwards ;)

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Bees and Dandelions.

The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the bees are busy being bees! We have tons of dandelions in our yard. The bees are all over them though. 

Today were going to clean our garage, because with all the stuff my brother and I have brought home, it's getting a little full. We found this angle iron that is so heavy, that it takes two of us to pick it up!

Does anyone know what flower this is? I used to know, but I don't anymore. We have a lot of them at our place.

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