My mom with the first of my herd born on the 78 acres I own outside of Mountain Grove, Missouri. Her name is Princess (the cow, that is; my mom’s name is Carole).I found this at a junk yard outside of Houston, Missouri, thinking it might be my old bug. It isn’t, but if it had been, I’d have bought it and towed home.A new calf, born in January 2018.Sign outside Ballyvaughn, County Clare, Ireland. “What do we really want?” This is THE question, isn’t it?On Galway Bay in Ballyvaughn, County Clare, IrelandOne of the most beautiful trees I have ever seen, this catalpa lives and grows on the campus of the University of Mississippi.Our rental cottage in Ballyvaughan (2012).This is Queenie, my only red angus on my farm in southern Missouri.Ralph is a corgi we adopted from a family here in St. Louis when he couldn’t stop trying to herd their horses. He’s a weird guy, but we love him a lot.Friends and family watching the eclipse in our backyard in August 2017. We’ve rehabbed our grass since then, so it no longer looks like Arizona.Princess with her first calf.This is a photo of my dad as a little boy in Arkansas. It’s also the background image for my page here, though it’s kind of hard to see.