pine grove cows

[asakiyume]

These cows are here, winter and summer--under these pine trees. Up the hill from them right now is a huge pile of butternut squash which I think? they must be eating? I like them; they are shaggy.





BTW... there are two entries before this one that I think possibly didn't make it into people's feeds. I did some hijinks with postdating and initially making private entries and then changing them to public, and I think they may have fallen into a friends feed oubliette.

Comments

[athenais]

I love cows. They look so sweet with their shaggy faces.

[asakiyume]

And their environs are so... boreal/taiga. Not like pastures as I usually imagine them.

[umadoshi]

What marvelous cows! *^^*

[asakiyume]

They are the bovine best!

[queenoftheskies]

I love the fuzzy cows!

Where my oldest son teaches, they have fuzzy cows (because of their winter coats).

At Halloween, the university has a pumpkin patch. Whatever's left over, they feed to the cows, who LOVE them.

[asakiyume]

Oh this is so good to know! So then they definitely are giving the leftover butternut squashes to the cows.

[queenoftheskies]

I would guess, yes, cause cows LOVE them. :)

[cmcmck]

Is the B/W one a Highland cross?

[asakiyume]

I don't know! Could be!

[sovay]

I like them; they are shaggy.

Are they a particular type of shaggy cow?

[asakiyume]

cmcmck asked if they were highland cattle, which come in more colors than russet and which some of them do look like. But the truth is, I don't know. I suspect the field hosts a mixture, because some of them *don't* look very much like highland cattle.

[amaebi]

When I was little and had only a conventional grasp on English, I was troubled by the term "sweetmeats." Cattle eating butternut squash makes me think of that, but it seems delightful now.

[asakiyume]

I know what you mean by that word--it bothered me too. Squashes as sweetmeats for cattle is appealing though!