Adorable. I am also a sucker for baby elk, deer, antelope etc. We had a pet antelope when I was growing up. (the mommy had died giving birth and she was orphaned so we took her in) Lovely pictures.
What gorgeous creatures you have captured Cindy. Just look at those ears! Like the velvet soft ears of a deer. And the babies in the nursery! I spent my 30th birthday years ago at the home of my boss and his wife. My boss’ parents joined for dinner. His father brought a special dish for my birthday meal: a steak from an Elk. He was proud to t3ll us all that he had shot the Elk himself in Montana. I could not refuse to at least taste the steak. That would have been very rude. To this day some decades laree, I still feel guilty about eating such a magnificent beast. What a memory your post has awakened! Best, Babsje
I hear you and am so impressed that you retain the memory and your dissonance with the situation you were put in, and also admire your sensitivity and concern. I read a quote that Mark Zuckerberg likes to kill the animals he eats because “they taste better.” It’s good we won’t be invited for dinner at the Zuckerbergs! დდ
Oh my. What a quote that is!! Yes good thing we won’t be invited to dinner there. Thanks for your kind words and for your own sensitive, gorgeous wildlife photos. The birds especially!
I have nothing against sheep (especially on the plate with mint sauce, wicked me…) but your animals are so graceful and I certainly wouldn’t eat one! (Can imagine indignation from vegetarian quarters…) Cheers! x
Wonderful pictures. By the way, when I am on your site it asks me to follow you, however I am already and I do get emails when you have a new post. I shall press the follow button again though, just in case. There is certainly something strange with your followers.
That’s what our small town of Gearhart (North Oregon coast) looks like sometimes. It’s calving season. Moms are okay unless you try to get too close. We have a large herd.
Such gorgeous, fuzzy babies! Great photos, Cindy — they must know you’re not about to hurt them, or they’d have never let you get close enough to photograph.
Wow! I have never seen Elk like these, Cindy. Ours, in the mountains of Arizona, looked a bit different gathered in the middle of the main thoroughfare. We’d get whole herds at dusk crossing roads so you had to be very careful. I never wanted to accidentally hurt one. Beautiful in that meadow.
Elk in Arizona are usually up in the mountains. Herds would block the main artery from Payson to Heber. Then all the way through Pinetop to Greer. They love the high altitude.
We should both get bumper stickers, for our cars, yours “Elk Country Arizona,” mine, “Elk Country California!” I would put mine above my “Caution German Driver,” bumper sticker, which, of course, is with me as I type. Love to you Marlene დ
Just went over an read your post and left a comment. Difficult transition and decision, but it sounds like you thought it through very carefully. I am happy you have such loving family around you. You deserve it! დ
I regret the decision every time I want to load the beast up with something to take somewhere. My daughter drove it most of the time we used it as I have done little driving the last year.
They are so sweet and they do look like Bambi. I think the Disney illustrators were very talented and often accurate, except for roadrunners, who look nothing like Meep Meep! დ
They are pretty special, thank you Eliza. Today we hiked in the National Council of Garden Club’s Rhododendron Grove in the redwoods. This is the best time for wild flowers and the lilies and wild iris were simply stunning. So many species. I thought of you დ
I have. There is wild butterfly bush, wild (real fuschia), wild asiatic lilies, wild orchids, wild roses, on and on. It is a botanical wonder. And this is peak bloom season and they grow amongs denset fern, in old growth redwood forests, with very limited human traffic. The only people we ran into hiking yesterday was a prof from Humboldt State and his wife, who identified many of the plants that stumped me. There are so many other things too, that the flowers are just, are just like, “Oh, my, look at that!” Stay well my friend. დ
I love your photographs. I have been so busy in the garden, only now, when everything is growing faster than the weeds am I getting back to reading blogs with any regularity.
Spent quite a bit of time in Point Reyes NP with the coastal elk hangin’ around. Crazy to see those massive animals just there amongst the pickleweed and scrub oaks.
Where’s all the males? It’s just ladies and young ones. Seems like a house party where all the guys are in the garage, LOL. We just spent a couple of days in the Rockies and were lucky to see a few mama’s and they calves around. Aren’t they beautiful 💛 xK
Aren’t they lovely! Great photos, Cindy. 🙂
Thank you Lynette & very pleased you like the hoofy ones დ
Gorgeous 😍
Grazie mille დ
How cute!
They are! დ
How wonderful that you can bring us so close to them!
I was completely thrilled დ
Adorable. I am also a sucker for baby elk, deer, antelope etc. We had a pet antelope when I was growing up. (the mommy had died giving birth and she was orphaned so we took her in) Lovely pictures.
How amazing and wonderful! When I get a photo of a wild antelope, I am thrilled for days!!! დ
What gorgeous creatures you have captured Cindy. Just look at those ears! Like the velvet soft ears of a deer. And the babies in the nursery! I spent my 30th birthday years ago at the home of my boss and his wife. My boss’ parents joined for dinner. His father brought a special dish for my birthday meal: a steak from an Elk. He was proud to t3ll us all that he had shot the Elk himself in Montana. I could not refuse to at least taste the steak. That would have been very rude. To this day some decades laree, I still feel guilty about eating such a magnificent beast. What a memory your post has awakened! Best, Babsje
I hear you and am so impressed that you retain the memory and your dissonance with the situation you were put in, and also admire your sensitivity and concern. I read a quote that Mark Zuckerberg likes to kill the animals he eats because “they taste better.” It’s good we won’t be invited for dinner at the Zuckerbergs! დდ
Oh my. What a quote that is!! Yes good thing we won’t be invited to dinner there. Thanks for your kind words and for your own sensitive, gorgeous wildlife photos. The birds especially!
Stay safe and well დ
How cute ! 🙂 Adorable creatures.
They are exactly that! Thank you my friend დ
I have nothing against sheep (especially on the plate with mint sauce, wicked me…) but your animals are so graceful and I certainly wouldn’t eat one! (Can imagine indignation from vegetarian quarters…) Cheers! x
Fabulous! 🙂 🙂
Merci beaucoup mon Ami დ
Great shots – perhaps the inspiration for Bambi’s spots
Thank you Derrick & I think you may well be right დ
Looking at your great photos is like taking a break in the meadow and looking at these beautiful specimens. Wonderful photos.
Awwww, what a wonderful comment. You make me very happy I posted them. Thank you & be well დ
You are welcome.
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It just confirms your good taste Cindy.
Massive Hugs
Smiling…… I think the elk agree with you!!! 😉
Wonderful pictures. By the way, when I am on your site it asks me to follow you, however I am already and I do get emails when you have a new post. I shall press the follow button again though, just in case. There is certainly something strange with your followers.
There certainly is something strange afoot, but the good news is, it can’t stop wonderful friends like you! დდ
So beautiful 🌹💓
Grazie mille დ
Awesome shots, Cindy. I like watching your zeal as a photographer. Thank you for sharing your excellent shots. 🙂
You are such a good friend, my friend. Thank you & be safe & well დ
Lovely creatures! They seem to be enjoying the bright, sunny day.
They definitely were enjoying life, like we all should! დ
I couldn’t agree more!
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The pictorial presentation! Love it!
I am so happy you do, and thank you Makaitah დ
I like hanging here with you, for reasons like this.
So smiling. It is so nice to be understood, and visa versa დდ
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They are THE cutest! 😍 But I can see that teenage attitude in their eyes already…LOL!
Laughing….. Watch out next spring Mama!!!
Cute post Cindy. I relate to it all; loving solitude, nature, and hanging with the right kind of herd. 😍
Smiling. We understand each other perfectly Brad დდ
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That’s what our small town of Gearhart (North Oregon coast) looks like sometimes. It’s calving season. Moms are okay unless you try to get too close. We have a large herd.
It is sooooo cool! Must be wonderful to live with them დ
These are really beautiful! Love the little spots on their sides. I wonder if their fur is soft, as it looks like it might be. 🙂
So happy you like them! They certainly look fluffy and sweet don’t they. დ
Always a draw Cindy, such lovely graceful creatures.
Leslie xoxo
They are just that. Thank you Leslie & stay well დ
The calves are so sweet – I loved the face in that first photo. Thanks for the introduction to them!
Thank you more for loving them დ
Such gorgeous, fuzzy babies! Great photos, Cindy — they must know you’re not about to hurt them, or they’d have never let you get close enough to photograph.
You’re right. Wild animals have finally attuned threat perceptors. They know when to flee and when it is okay to hang around დ
Such lovely photos!
I am honored you think so, thank you Kymber & cheers დ
So adorable. Thank you.
Hugs to you Gigi and stay well my friend დ
Wow! I have never seen Elk like these, Cindy. Ours, in the mountains of Arizona, looked a bit different gathered in the middle of the main thoroughfare. We’d get whole herds at dusk crossing roads so you had to be very careful. I never wanted to accidentally hurt one. Beautiful in that meadow.
These are Roosevelt Elk, which I have seen in Washington. I have never seen elk in Arizona. Today elk did cross the road, enmass! Amazing
Elk in Arizona are usually up in the mountains. Herds would block the main artery from Payson to Heber. Then all the way through Pinetop to Greer. They love the high altitude.
We should both get bumper stickers, for our cars, yours “Elk Country Arizona,” mine, “Elk Country California!” I would put mine above my “Caution German Driver,” bumper sticker, which, of course, is with me as I type. Love to you Marlene დ
A bumper sticker would be fun but I no longer have a car. 😉
I don’t know if that is good, bad, or neither. But, I apologize. I didn’t know.
It’s quite recent. My last post. No problem.
Just went over an read your post and left a comment. Difficult transition and decision, but it sounds like you thought it through very carefully. I am happy you have such loving family around you. You deserve it! დ
I regret the decision every time I want to load the beast up with something to take somewhere. My daughter drove it most of the time we used it as I have done little driving the last year.
Not an easy transition to make. I am sorry.
They are super cute! Looks like bambi!
They are so sweet and they do look like Bambi. I think the Disney illustrators were very talented and often accurate, except for roadrunners, who look nothing like Meep Meep! დ
Lovely photos of the elk family, Cindy! They appear to be almost tame. Perhaps they have gotten used to the human presence in the park.
Thank you Peter. These guys weren’t actually in the park, and they are hunted, but strictly limited. დ
All so great!
Thanks so much & cheers! დ
Wonderful! <3
They are pretty special, thank you Eliza. Today we hiked in the National Council of Garden Club’s Rhododendron Grove in the redwoods. This is the best time for wild flowers and the lilies and wild iris were simply stunning. So many species. I thought of you დ
Thank you for thinking of me, Cindy. 🙂 I hope you took lots of pictures!
I have. There is wild butterfly bush, wild (real fuschia), wild asiatic lilies, wild orchids, wild roses, on and on. It is a botanical wonder. And this is peak bloom season and they grow amongs denset fern, in old growth redwood forests, with very limited human traffic. The only people we ran into hiking yesterday was a prof from Humboldt State and his wife, who identified many of the plants that stumped me. There are so many other things too, that the flowers are just, are just like, “Oh, my, look at that!” Stay well my friend. დ
Sounds so wonderful! <3
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So many elks! Wow!
Stay safe, dear Cindy!
You too my friend & thank you! დ
I love meeting up with your friends, Cindy!!
I know. We hand with the same crowd(s) Rebecca! დ
I heard you!
Best place to hang, ever!!
Thanks for the lovelies, Cindy!
My kinda herd! Cheers to you Resa დ
Looks like being in great company!
The best of the best! დ
Where you find one little one, you’ll find them all. 🙂
Exactly, and I found the whole nursery! დ
How sweet they are! Thanks, Cindy! 🙂
I <3 my friends who <3 elks! Thank you Clare დ
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Ahh..an aMoosement park! I love these photos deerly, my friend! ◟(◔ั₀◔ั )◞ ༘💗💗💗
Smilling……. and so happy you enjoyed. We are of the same elk! დ
Have a lovely day, my friend! ❤️🌈
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Oh my goodness, what a wonderful delight to see today! Such wonderful photos, I feel like I am there!
Virtually, you are here, and I am grateful for it! დ
Beautiful
Thank you Sarah დ
They’re so beautiful. Lovely images of them, Cindy!! 😀
Awww, thank you very much. I was with more of them today, in really beautiful terrain დ
Sehr schöne Bilder von den Huftieren Cindy!
Danke mein lieber Freund Ernst & bleib gesund mein Freund Ernst დ
I love your photographs. I have been so busy in the garden, only now, when everything is growing faster than the weeds am I getting back to reading blogs with any regularity.
Lovely to hear from you & thank you! დ
Adorable!
Gazie mille დ
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Aww…they’re so cute and we loved the way you captured it, Cindy😸Pawkisses for a Happy Weekend🐾😽💞
So happy you enjoyed hanging the herd my friend and cheers to you! დ
So adorable!
Aren’t they just that! Thanks Brenda & hope all is well with you დ
All is well in my corner of the world. We strive to make each day beautiful. 🙂
Good for you!!!!
Spent quite a bit of time in Point Reyes NP with the coastal elk hangin’ around. Crazy to see those massive animals just there amongst the pickleweed and scrub oaks.
I spent about a week there. Loved the whole experience! დ
Adorable and fuzzy! And so many of them! What a special time that must have been.
I was riveted……My husband was quiet and watching, and then finally says, “Cindy, we’ve been here for hours, can we go?”
For me it was mere minutes 😉
Awwwe. They babies are so precious – and the adults look health and a bit intimidating sometimes!
Yes, they are precious creatures and the adults are capable of defending themselves if threatened. დ
Oh yes, those mamas look like they would do anything to protect their babes.
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Lovely elk photos!
So pleased you enjoyed them and cheers to you! დ
Great pics! It’s almost like you were right next to the cuties!
Thanks much. They came very close! დ
Where’s all the males? It’s just ladies and young ones. Seems like a house party where all the guys are in the garage, LOL. We just spent a couple of days in the Rockies and were lucky to see a few mama’s and they calves around. Aren’t they beautiful 💛 xK
Am I the only one that wants to kiss those cute noses
Laughing….I am sure not, but they are big and wild and would not appreciate the love behind it!! დდ
Well, that’s good. They may like lovins if they’d simply cooperate with me : )