{"id":1564,"date":"2009-05-24T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2009-12-20T07:19:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T15:19:48","slug":"beau-vine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/beau-vine\/","title":{"rendered":"Beau Vine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bovine, actually. Cows, you know.<\/p>\n<p>But first, the owner of the cows around here:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/tillinggarden.jpg\" alt=\"TW tilling our garden...again\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yup, he&#8217;s tilling our garden. For the third time in a week. Voluntarily. Free of charge. He&#8217;s a great landlord! (Thank you, TW!)<\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> Some of the images below are clickable-to-see-a-larger-version.<\/p>\n<p>But back to bovine matters. Here&#8217;s one of the many mothers around here, accompanied by her child:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/momkid-1-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/momkid-1-s.jpg\" alt=\"Mom and kid with God's background\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The background is fuzzy but it gives you an idea of the beautiful views we have out back.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s that same mother and kid:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/momkid-2-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/momkid-2-s.jpg\" alt=\"Cows doing what cows do -- staring\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Oh, I mentioned the views out back, here&#8217;s another one (shot in the evening haze), this one of Oregon&#8217;s own Mt. Hood:<\/p>\n<p><!--more Yeah, you'll have to click this to see the rest. --><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/mthood-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/mthood-s.jpg\" alt=\"Oregon's Mount Hood\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well, there I went and wandered from the cow theme. So here you have a little one calling its mama at eventide:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/callingmom-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/callingmom-s.jpg\" alt=\"Calf calling mother\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another child and its mother:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/lunchtime-1.jpg\" alt=\"Calf at feeding stanchion\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And another shot of the same two:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/lunchtime-2.jpg\" alt=\"That's how baby cows eat?!\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And now&#8230;rounding out today&#8217;s inspiring photo collection&#8230;a newborn calf&#8230;just a few hours old:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/newbaby-1-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/newbaby-1-s.jpg\" alt=\"Brand new baby cow\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/newbaby-2-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/newbaby-2-s.jpg\" alt=\"Hours old bovine calf\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So, this fine morning here in Oregon, call me grateful for views, cows, and nice landlords.<\/p>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bovine, actually. Cows, you know. But first, the owner of the cows around here: Yup, he&#8217;s tilling our garden. For the third time in a week. Voluntarily. Free of charge. He&#8217;s a great landlord! (Thank you, TW!) Note: Some of the images below are clickable-to-see-a-larger-version. But back to bovine matters. Here&#8217;s one of the many &#8230; <a title=\"Beau Vine\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/beau-vine\/\" aria-label=\"More on Beau Vine\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,704,463],"tags":[672,24],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-photos","category-thankful","category-thisandthat","tag-nature","tag-oregon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-pe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}