I love to drive with my husband, Dave, along the county and township roads of Elgin  soaking up the colours and images of rural Ontario.  We were looking for beef cattle grazing in fields adjacent to the road so we could get some good shots. We found several fields with a variety of cattle. This particular group was in Southwold on Dave and Kandy Brown’s farm. Kandy, my sister, isn’t aware that their cows posed for me. Look at the Hereford checking me out. We probably looked very suspicious to her/him? What were we doing lurking at the edge of the field? 

I think these were all Mommas in this field. My David, when he saw the photos thought they were dairy cows because he noticed the one had an udder. The only beef cattle my Dave ever saw at the Psych Hospital farm were steers. I laughed at him, his father at one time was farm manager at the St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital farm and the family lived in an old farm house on the grounds. I explained about the birds and the bees  . . . . and the cattle. You have to have Momma cows in beef herds as well as dairy and with beef cattle Momma cows had to nurse little bull calves so they could grow up and be transformed into steers . .  . . . . thus the udder. We both had a good chuckle over this. I hope the cattlemen have a sense of humour too.

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