{the bi-annual cattle round-up}

i had never seen anything like this and i was so happy to get immersed right in the middle of it!

remember last friday i wrote about the coolest cattle?! well, as i was fotographing them that day, i inadvertently got stuck behind the twice-a-year cattle round-up that takes place here in town.  i was pretty much cracking-up the entire time and also felt so privileged to have witnessed this event, camera-in-hand.

it was the day of the eclipse, too… and the sunset was unbelievable!

i know they’re “just cows”, but i love them. and what i want to know is…

how the heck did they round up all these cows without me noticing?  one can’t get off this road, so-to-speak, and i had just turned around to head back down the hill when i saw this…

hundreds of cows being herded together – complete with cattle dog and cowboys alike…

so i followed them… mostly because i had no choice 😉

{these guys opted out, it appears…}

about half way down, i saw a girl sitting on a fencepost and i asked, “is this just normal?” and she replied, “it happens twice a year – once going down, and once going up…”

so glad i have a camera, i thought.

oh, hey dude!

here they are in town… it was a good 30 minutes or so that i was in the car, just watching the whole thing and laughing hysterically…

as a line of cars piled up behind us… i was the head of the train!

and they straight up went through town… not sure where they ended up, but i’m just glad i had a camera and glad i was accidentally there to witness the whole thing 😉

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