On Sunday Cody, my dad, and I went on a ride on Pine Valley. It was so stormy the night before but it was clear as can be and the perfect day for a ride sunday morning! I don't think that I've been on Pine Valley when it's been so wet! The ponds were full and everything was so green, it was absolutely gorgeous. Because of the rain the day before, parts of the trail were also very slippery.
Ha notice that Gambler and Dee are nuzzling and being nice in this picture? Well about a second later she bit him...Ha!!! That tease!!! :0)
The top right picture what went on everytime we got the camera out . . . I would forget i had my glasses on and I'd have to find something to do with the stuff in my hands, and you couldn't see Cody's face. Despite our struggles I think we got a few pretty cute ones. Luckily my dad likes taking pictures like me so he was always suggesting pictures. I told cody that must be where I get it from.
I've never seen so many wildflowers! There were all kinds and they were everywhere. I got to try out the digital macro setting on my camera and get a few pictures of them but I missed a lot. I think my favorites were the gorgeous red cactus flower that i have in the middle. I've never seen cactus flowers that vivid red!
I got most of these by the second pond we came to and at that pond there were two young cows. They looked like they must have survived the whole winter there without their mothers, though we couldn't figure out how or why. It was kind sad. While I was taking pictures they were following us around and kept following us until we got too far from their pond. Poor things!
Speaking of wildflowers, we passed this field that looked like it had a carpet of yellow wildflowers, so of course my dad and I thought we needed a picture in that field.
After our second run in with a rattle snake (yeah that's right 2 in one day, yick!!!) my dad was walking his mule and he picked me a little bouquet of wild flowers! it was so sweet! I tried to keep them for the rest of the ride but our descent was longer than I thought and they didn't survive very well. Part of the slick trail that wasn't so bad on our way up was like a slip n' slide going down. Dee lost her footing really bad at one point and I thought we were going down but somehow she caught her self and we made it the rest of the way down. I'm so proud of Dee. This was her first long mountain ride and she handled herself pretty well! She struggled with all the water crossings (even a water trough at the bottom of the trail terrified her) but hopefully next time they'll scare her a little less.
Since my first bouquet looked pretty sad by the time we got close to the truck, my dad picked me some more. What a sweetheart!
