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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Entries for: 10/20/2012 - 6/1/2012

Oct 20, '12 11:54 AM
for everyone

hosted by the Gator


Are You Tough Enough to
Wear Pink (Breast Cancer Awareness Night)
and
Rope, Mug, & Tie a
Wild Longhorn Steer?



Women's Ranch Rodeo Finals
Amarillo, Texas
October 13, 2012

Nikon  D7000 18-200 mm Lens
Automatic Sports Setting
Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 for Adjustments
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Oct 12, '12 5:05 PM
for everyone



My contrast is about several things:

1.  Photo taken this morning at a Women's Ranch Rodeo Finals
Husbands, Fathers, Boy Friends, Children, Parents & Friend in the stands or helping

2.  Focus contrast:
I was focused on our friend as she came into the arena during the grand entry, which makes the other items in the photo out of focus depending on location of the women & their horses or the trailer; or our friend and her horse

3. Fashion
Notice that what these real cowgirls are wearing may not be what you are seeing in the so called western fashion ads, stores, magazines, and such.  The gals were in "fashion".  Each with their own style of shirt, pants, boots, hats and hair style.  Some in plain shirts, some with a bit of sparkle but each practical, allowing them to do their job.  Tonight is breast cancer awareness or as the guys say at their rodeo for this topic, we're
 "tough enough to wear pink" 

If you have followed my Picture Perfect entries in the past you may recognize my friend

From Picture Perfect:
I've been looking back at all our previous posts, themes..pictures..from wayy back when. This was Tint's first theme post on Multiply, and as we flit around trying to find our new homes, the contrasts of each become glaringly obvious, the unfamiliarity of our new places, the warmth and friendliness of acceptance and the unique ways we have ensured we all stay in touch, leave me humbled and grateful.
For me, the pleasure of Picture Perfect is seeing how each person adapts the theme and shows us a different perspective. We get to see the world through someone else's eyes and I treasure that.
Cameras vary dramatically, as does experience, but one thread that runs through all the blogs is that each one has an eye for beauty, a story behind a picture, fun shared...

"Picture Perfect is a random fun thing thing to do, no prizes no winners..just a little something to encourage us to see things a little differently and perhaps remind us to take our cameras with us!"
Also here:

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Oct 6, '12 4:13 PM
for everyone


Gayle is our host this week

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April is Aglow
with the
Reflections of Water
Thanks to the Morning Sun

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For more information of Picture Perfect
Where the New "HOME" will be after December 1
Or just look at the photos
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Sep 28, '12 7:13 PM
for everyone

from Cheri:
This week I'm giving you permission to take that forbidden peek and share it here with us.  It can be of anything...person, place, animal, thing...whatever you find unawares. 

The only rule is to please remember this is a family friendly page.

No Peeping Toms Allowed
On the Rockin' Heart Ranch
But We Do Have a

Peeping Joe!!!!!!




Doc De Oros Poco Joe
aka
Little Joe
Peeping into the Saddle House

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Sep 21, '12 10:10 AM
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My Compromise:
Help myself to the fajitas
or
Head out with the camera for a sunset photo


Photo information:
September 15, 2012
Pole Canyon Ranch
Camping and trail riding with friends
Nikon D50
Slight adjustments and framed and signed with Adobe Photoshop Elements 10

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Sep 14, '12 4:00 PM
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You may have seen the mechanical bull in the movies.  The machine that tries to buck a person off it's back.  Well we have:

 A Mechanical Calf


It is remote controlled.  Runs on a set of 3 tightly strung ropes (powered by electricity and a control box for speed, etc).  It is for teaching a horse to work a calf or to refresh a horse that is trained for cutting or other cow show events.  In the above photo a friend (Ronny) is riding my horse Jake.  The same photo in my icon photo & many of my horse photos.  Russ has the remote control and I'm taking photos (off camera of course).
 
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Sep 13, '12 6:07 PM
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It's freestyle week at Picture Perfect so I'm taking that a step further and doing my entry as a blog with lots of photos.  Had this blog planned, it's just taking a different turn with emphasis on this Picture Perfect theme.  As said: The one thing good friends and close families love to do together, is share in a meal, to break bread, open a glass of wine..or not, a cup of coffee...and talk..open their souls, fill their hearts with joy and laughter by performing a very basic task, eating! Watching someone prepare food evokes a connection on a simple yet very real level and many of us can recall that person to memory just by the smallest waft of a herb..the sizzle of bacon..or the soft sound of wine slipping into a glass.
So I'm following these instructions: Share your meal memory with us and lets Break Bread together 
So pull up a chair, pour a cup of cowboy coffee and come ride and eat with us.
Good Friends, Great Scenery, & Lots of Wonderful Food & Fellowship
This blog about our friends, the scenery and good eats starts with working up an appetite.  Our good times started with the arrival of friends Vance and his boys Hank and Tate to the Cimarron Campgrounds in the Valle Vidal Unit of the Carson National Forest.  Quickly we have horses ready and loaded in Vance's trailer and off to the Clayton Corral parking area we go.  Vance lives at Bobcat Pass near Red River, New Mexico and operates an outfitting service.  Hunting trips, pack trips, etc.  He really knows this area.  I'm riding Doc and Russ on Colt.  I have the camera case for my older Nikon D50 (18-70 mm lens) Russ made me on the front of the saddle, a point and shoot in my shirt pocket, and Russ has a point and shoot in his saddle bags.  Prepared for lots of picture taking.  Beef jerky, honey oat bars, cheese & peanut butter crackers, and mints in the saddle bags.  Also plenty of water and of course a slicker in case it rains.  Just look at this view at the parking area but we are going north towards Elk Meadows.







We rode a variety of terrain and saw lots of beautiful scenery.  We took our time, had good conversation, interesting local history, and I took a lot of photos.  Here are just three:




We came back a bit earlier than planned.  Didn't make it all the way to Elk Meadows.  We could here some rumble of thunder and didn't want to chance getting caught in a lightning storm.  In the mountains it's hard to see those storms until they are right on top of you.  We loaded the horses and back to camp we go.  Horses taken care of then the cookin' preparation begins.  Vance tells us what he has brought and we add to the menu.  Cooking at our camp.






I do my part in the trailer, getting some things ready including peeling and slicing potatoes & onions to be fried in the wok.  Vance is an expert camp chef.  He's also responsible for cooking the biscuits in Dutch ovens at the Cowboy Evenings at Bobcat Wilderness Adventures near Red River.  Look for my blogs about day 1 & 2 of our vacation posted a few days ago. I'll leave the links in the comment section if you want to take a look.  The oil is tested for heat by frying 1 onion ring.  Can learn a lot about cooking just watching Vance.








Russ has the Camp Chef stove heating and Vance is cooking the potatoes and onions.









Don't those potatoes and onions look great?  In this photo Vance is adding salt towards the end of the cooking.  They were great.  Cooked perfectly and not a bit greasy.  
Vance haf seen an article about weaving bacon and then grilling.  He often grills bacon but wanted to give this a try so he and Russ did the weaving.  I should have videoed that.  Take my word for it, those two can really make cooking fun. 


More bacon is grilled to be mixed with chopped green chilies.  No following any diets on this trip.  Remember we just rode a lot of miles and we're ready to enjoy this meal.










Snacks of chips and dip.  Tate is putting tortillas on the wok to be heated.  Using them as wraps for the hamburger patties, bacon, & chilies.








Russ has the patties about ready and the chilies are cooking with the grilled bacon.


We may not set a fancy table but we have everything needed.  Good friends and good food.









Besides good food and friends.  There is beautiful scenery accented by the late afternoon moon.  I took moon shots each night.  This is a hand held shot, 200 mm lens and enlarged 67% and cropped.  Another moon shot at night was done the same way.







Here is our camp scenery.  Perfect back drop for our cookout  (moon is in this shot too).

Hank and Tate chop wood and gather kindling for a camp fire.  What was missing was s'mores!!  Vance and I both forgot the chocolate and marshmallows, we had the gram crackers.







We feasted on all the wonderful food. 



Part of the clean up is easy -- just toss in the camp fire.









Putting things away --- food in the tummy and supplies back in the trailer.  Non burnable trash in sacks. 

Hank and Tate entertained themselves cutting wood and keeping the fire blazing.  Russ feed the horses.  I take photos and then retreat to the trailer for clean up in there.

Have you ever wondered where the term putting on the feed bag came from?  Here's the answer.  Colt and Doc have their meal in the bag hung around their head.











The night time moon as seen from camp.









It was a late night.  Visiting, great conversation and the camp fire.  I stayed in the trailer after it got dark.  Night air and camp fire smoke really gets to my allergies so I missed out on parts of the conversation.  The next morning we take our time and enjoy another great meal with our friends.  Bacon is started in the wok.

And Russ makes his mountain man breakfast: Sausage, hash browns, green chilies, eggs, and cheese.

Our wok was new and Vance showed us how to properly take care of it after each cooking session.  I'm not sure how I missed it but we also had Russ' peach cobbler for breakfast.  Tate informed us that he wanted peach cobbler before they had to go home.  So instead of peach preserves we had peach cobbler made in a Dutch oven.  It was sure good and only a small bowl left to take to the camp host.  We also took him a bowl of the mountain man breakfast. 







The horses munch on hay while we ate our breakfast and clean up camp.








Now time for another ride.   Horses loaded in Vance's trailer and to the LaBelle parking area we go.  More beautiful scenery.
Russ takes photos once in a while.  He took this one of Vance, his boys and me.
Lots of beautiful things to see, now sure what Russ is pointing at.  I take a lot of photos from the back of my horse and often there are horse ears in the bottom of the photo.

With Vance as a guide we head for Clayton Camp after leaving the LaBelle area.  The camp is an old lodge used for hunters, a line camp, and other things before this ranch land was a national forest.







Hank takes a look inside the cabin.  One can picture in their head, the cooking that went on inside the kitchen that is just inside the door.  Can you see the old stove?

Russ gets a photo of me taking a photo of the inside of the cabin.  At one time this was a rather fancy place out in the wilderness.


Vance and his sons ride off a ways.  What a quality father/son time this was.  I hope they like the photos that I took.  They have not seen them yet.








Clouds are building as we approach the trailer.  Might have timed this ride just right.  Load the horses, head for camp and more cooking.









It is lightly raining so the meal is cooked under the awning of our trailer.  Main course: rib eye beef tips & onions & green chilies simmered in a Llano Estacado sweet red wine from Lubbock, Texas.  The beef tips are the trimmings from the rib eyes served during the Cowboy Evenings at Bobcat Pass Wilderness adventures.  We do eat good in camp.  I hope you enjoyed a glance into our two days with friends, wonderful conversation (and a few tall tales), horse back riding and great food. Can't wait to do it again. 
   
Happy Trails and Good Eating
to Everyone out there in Multiply Land
 
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Sep 12, '12 9:33 PM
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"My City in Song"

Country Neon Lights
No Electricity Needed







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Sep 9, '12 7:40 PM
for everyone
Remember the Picture Perfect entry for Bends and Angles that I titled "Eye to Eye" and the Gator commented: "that should be the cover shot for a tack magazine lynda...and fits in perfect with what we are doing this week"  What I knew at the time that the photo just might be published because I took a series of photos for horse trainer friend Heather Thompson for an article about her training in the August 2012 Paint Horse Journal and that was one that the editor wanted for the article.  It might not have made the cover but 4 of my photos made the article.












I carefully took a one sided razor blade and cut the pages from the center of the Paint Horse Journal and scanned them into a photo program.   Then made a collage from the 4 pages into 2 photos as if looking at the magazine.  I also used arrows, line, and a star at my name.  After all it's not every day I get my name in a magazine.




Thanks Heather for giving me the opportunity to take the photos and to Laura Stevens from the Paint Horse Journal for choosing these photos to go with her article.  Heather is the trainer that started Doc, Diamond, and Dillon for us when they were two years old.  Heather sold Dillon for us while she was training him. 


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Aug 15, '12 9:42 PM
for everyone
hosted by Cherie

Multiply, Here's Dirt in Your Face
For Kicking Us Out



From all the Rockin' Heart Ranch Horses

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Photo information:
8/15/2012  12:41 PM
Nikon D7000 on automatic and burst
Adobe Photoshop Elements for slight adjustments and signature
The Rockin' Heart Ranch
Texas Panhandle

Happy Trails Everyone as we ride off into the sunset looking for a new cyber home for Picture Perfect and the rest of the Multiply gang.  If you would like to read the blog about how this photo was taken, just look for the link in the comment.  I hope to have it up by tomorrow.  Little Joe has a story to tell you.   
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Aug 10, '12 5:32 PM
for Lynda's contacts


All the Pretty Horses
by: Cormac McCarthy     


Photo information:
.....Camera: Nikon D-50
.....July 10, 2012
.....Rockin' Heart Ranch Flower Beds
.....Photo Program: Adobe Photoshop Elements 10
Book Information:

All the Pretty Horses (novel)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention. It was a bestseller and it won both the U.S. National Book Award[1] and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is also the first of McCarthy's "Border Trilogy".
The book was adapted as a 2000 film with the same name, All the Pretty Horses, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.

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Aug 1, '12 10:54 PM
for everyone

hosted by Gayle

To the Moon and Back



8/1/2012
about 8:30 PM
April and Diamond Grazing During the
Rising of the Full Moon
aka Blue Moon
aka Horse Thief Moon


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Jul 25, '12 12:38 PM
for everyone
Hosted by Cherie


Translucent Reflections




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Jul 18, '12 3:11 PM
for everyone


hosted by Gayle

I Wonder




What did this place look like long before my time?
How did those settlers survive the harsh elements?
What turning point caused the abandonment of this place?


Photo information:
July 20, 2012  11:45 AM
Nikon D7000 18-70 lens, landscape scene setting
Valle Vidal Unit of the Carson National Forest
New Mexico, USA
The only way to view this cabin is by hiking or horseback
I was horseback (on Colt) when I took this photo of
McCrystal Cabin near the McCrystal Creek
Edited on Adobe Photoshop Elements 10

Summer Contest Information:



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Jul 11, '12 8:00 PM
for everyone


hosted by the Gator


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Eye to Eye




Baby the FillyFlexes and Bendsas the Trainer applies the correct Anglewith her body, hands and lead rope.



Photo information:
 April 30, 2012 at Wilhelm Performance Horses Nazareth, Texas
Trainer: Heather Thompson


Nikon D7000 
Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 for slight adjustments, enlargements, and cropping


About the 2012 Fun Summer Competition:
We have 8 fun themes lined up for you, but before we start a quick reminder on the most important points to keep in mind during this competition time, esp important for any newcomers:

**General Rules of the game are HERE on the homepage**
*Sizing of your picture is vital, not too big or too small. We do not want to 'click' on pictures to make them bigger

*Open your post to everyone, and then leave a link here so we may visit your page.

*Anyone can join, but only contacts may vote on the poll..so add us to your contact list, even if its just for the competition.

*To be a valid entry for the competition, the picture must be one taken by you.
** The theme will be posted early Wednesday morning, you have until Friday midnight PST to post up your entries, the admins deliberate on Sat and the Top Ten will be posted later in the day, and you will get 24hrs to vote for the weeks winner.

* Lets try and keep the drama stuff to a minimum. If anyone has any queries, suggestions or just needs a vent, please do it to the admins in a pm and not on the open page as this just encourages a generalized melee, and solves nothing at all.

With all that being said, here is to a happy fun filled six weeks and a special warm welcome to our newbies, we look forward to sharing in your creativity!

Now with all that being said "Release the hounds" and
let the games begin. Weeks ago we started tossing ideas
around about what themes to try and test you with this go round.

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Happy Trails Everyone
and
Good Luck During the Competition


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Jun 15, '12 9:01 PM
for everyone

hosted by Cherie



Boomer Seems to be all Smiles
as He Plays Giraffe and Eats Leaves





Photo: Friend Karen's horse Boomer at Pole Canyon Ranch 5/9/2012
Camera: Nikon D 50 on automatic, flash off
Collage done on Adobe Photoshop Elements 10


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Jun 8, '12 7:54 PM
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The Picture Perfect Way
To End "The Daily Grind"
Is to Watch a Texas Panhandle Sunset
While Horses Peacefully Graze




4/25/2012 
Location: Our place in the Texas panhandle
Horse: Little Joe
Camera:  Nikon D7000 on scene setting - sunset/sunrise
Photo Program: Adobe Photoshop Elements 10

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Jun 1, '12 8:17 AM
for everyone

hosted by Cherie


An Idiom is just a fancy pants word for a figure of speech, or a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words...
For example.....
"it's raining cats and dogs"
obviously it's not actually raining down cats and dogs but it's a common expression with a figurative meaning of the rain is falling in a downpour.....



Photo Information:
Nikon D7000
May 25, 2012 during sunset on our place
Doc will go to any measure to reach grass
Adjustments, signed, & background on Adobe Photoshop Elements10
Small frame and title on PicMonkey.com

Thanks for stopping by "the ranch"

I do hope my photo brought a smile to your face as it did mine when I saw Doc going to the extreme just to get a nibble of grass.


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