Friday, January 31, 2014

Today at Ramsay began with a brilliant sunrise, captured by Stephen when he went out to make the rounds.

Sunrise, last day of January, 2014

Stephen and I went to Staunton this morning to see an art exhibit at Mary Baldwin College.  The show featured work by the artist who is conducting the "Open Studio" sessions at Crozet Arts that I am attending on Wednesday mornings.  The works were in mixed media on Mylar, and this one reminded me of the foxes that live at Ramsay.

Mixed media on Mylar, by John A. Hancock

On the way home, we stopped by Augusta Co-op and picked up feed and mineral blocks for the cows and horses.  Geo continued his work clearing underbrush in the woods today.  Our faithful gardener, Patsy, and her able assistant, Heather, were here trimming the shrubs along Cottage Lane.  Stephen completed office work for the week.

Just as the sun was setting today, our dogs, and then we, saw a herd of ten deer in the big north field behind our houses.  There were adult deer and a number of little ones, all of whom ignored our dogs' ballistic barking and grazed peacefully for about 20 minutes.  We loved seeing the young ones capering around, seemingly enjoying the milder weather and being out in the open with room to run.  Today's high temperature was 54 degrees, according to our weather apps, and this morning's low was 23 Degrees.