Driving an hour + back and forth from our home to our ranch, I see all kinds of interesting wildlife…wild turkeys, pronghorns, deer, elk, owls.  Most of the time they are all too far away to get good pics, but everyone once in a while I get lucky.

When it rains, which has been rare this summer, toads start popping up, almost as if the water reconstitutes them. This tubby fellow was in our front yard, but more often then not, several of them are in our window wells and I become a toad wrangler.

This guy is the last thing I would have expected to see on the dry plains.  He appears to be a Painted Turtle, one that I have seen back east near lakes and ponds.  But this guy was making his way across a dirt road from one field to another and not a drop of water in sight.

Here are his tracks.

Not all of our wildlife is wild…these 2 pasture buddies like hanging out at their fence watching the grass grow.

And finally, our Huskador (Husky Lab mix) Blue with our new barn kittens.