<![CDATA[Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine.]]>Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. Had a great time because: she and I have the same political/social views, and we are smart. Also we like each other's arts. We'd stop every 5 minutes or less to take photos. And we are always hungry. Perfection.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Tamami/statuses/116411586696050209https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Tamami/statuses/116411586696050209Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:37:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:26:45 GMT]]>@lydiaschoch Isn't it? Next time I'd pack a little lunch and just stay/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Tamami/statuses/116411544733030133https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Tamami/statuses/116411544733030133Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:26:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:25:14 GMT]]>@Tamami So lovely!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/lydiaschoch/statuses/116411538794952042https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/lydiaschoch/statuses/116411538794952042Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:25:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:54:30 GMT]]>@mplouffe Thank you! I don't have a lot of friends, but the ones I got are keepers ✌️

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Tamami/statuses/116411182012201218https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Tamami/statuses/116411182012201218Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:54:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:40:33 GMT]]>@Tamami Lovely view! And a wonderful story of friendship.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://scholar.social/users/mplouffe/statuses/116410419371106866https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://scholar.social/users/mplouffe/statuses/116410419371106866Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:40:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:26:50 GMT]]>@Tamami
Cows are very humble to the end of their death.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/MagnusIdode/statuses/116407770166750021https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/MagnusIdode/statuses/116407770166750021Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:26:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:32:40 GMT]]>@Tamami I was painting by the seat of my pants with that one. And my youngest daughter kept offering advice. She was ten at the time. She even mixed some of the grays I used on the cow and clouds. Collaborative piece.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/pussreboots/statuses/116407085326995319https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/pussreboots/statuses/116407085326995319Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:32:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:16:46 GMT]]>@sunumbral @ai6yr @Tamami A friend has a fifth generation ranch in Drewsey, Oregon, on the far far northern edge of the Great Basin. I've helped him move and brand cattle and he's taught me a lot about a fascinating culture that found a good system for sustainably growing food and basically hasn't changed since because it hasn't needed to. (During the branding shown below, I asked his 80+ y.o. dad what had changed from when he was a kid growing up across the road from his current ranch. He scanned slowly across the rail-fence corral, the irons heating on coals, his neighbors on horseback gathered to rope and drag and castrate and brand the calves, the calves bawling not from pain but because they've been temporarily separated from their mamas, the mamas snorting and milling and occasionally charging the humans to get their calves back (which they do anyway after about one minute) – he looked carefully at all that, pointed at some long cattle-haulers parked nearby, and said gravely, "we didn't have them kind trucks back in those days.")

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/msbellows/statuses/116407022784182303https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/msbellows/statuses/116407022784182303Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:16:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:25:54 GMT]]>@msbellows oh, wow

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/sunumbral/statuses/116406822799661452https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/sunumbral/statuses/116406822799661452Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:25:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:16:48 GMT]]>@sunumbral @ai6yr @Tamami Don't know about dogies. "Leppies" is from "lepers" – the cow sometimes rejects its calf (especially if it's the second of twins), and then that calf is shunned by all the cows (who reserve their milk for their own) unless the rancher uses a trick to get another cow who lost her calf to adopt it (like skinning the dead calf and draping the hide over the leppie so it smells right).

There, more than you ever wanted to know!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/msbellows/statuses/116406786998836796https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/msbellows/statuses/116406786998836796Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:16:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:44:45 GMT]]>@Tamami thank you.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/pussreboots/statuses/116406661017416956https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/pussreboots/statuses/116406661017416956Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:44:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:40:52 GMT]]>@pussreboots Love it. The perspective is great.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Tamami/statuses/116406645686976825https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Tamami/statuses/116406645686976825Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:40:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:32:20 GMT]]>@Tamami here are some cows I painted ten years ago.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/sunumbral/statuses/116406501834294000https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/sunumbral/statuses/116406501834294000Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:04:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:02:25 GMT]]>@Tamami wooof wooof 😆

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/sunumbral/statuses/116406494501121255https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/sunumbral/statuses/116406494501121255Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:02:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:01:31 GMT]]>@pussreboots Okay! I'll try!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Tamami/statuses/116406490960815273https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Tamami/statuses/116406490960815273Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:01:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:00:47 GMT]]>@msbellows @sunumbral OH! My bad. Of course they are.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Tamami/statuses/116406488091907819https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Tamami/statuses/116406488091907819Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:00:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:46:24 GMT]]>@CuriousMagpie @Tamami @sunumbral Ha! Perfect!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/msbellows/statuses/116406431521116980https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/msbellows/statuses/116406431521116980Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:46:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:27:27 GMT]]>@Tamami paint the cows 💕

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/pussreboots/statuses/116406357020283958https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/pussreboots/statuses/116406357020283958Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:27:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:27:10 GMT]]>@msbellows @Tamami @sunumbral

I see "one" dog - under the "D"...
So - not a full hallucination.
😉

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://kzoo.to/users/JohnJBurnsIII/statuses/116406355910629672https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://kzoo.to/users/JohnJBurnsIII/statuses/116406355910629672Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:27:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:24:09 GMT]]>@msbellows @Tamami @sunumbral Moof! moof!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/CuriousMagpie/statuses/116406344061845580https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/CuriousMagpie/statuses/116406344061845580Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:24:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:11:29 GMT]]>@ai6yr @Tamami @sunumbral Exactly. It just forgot an "i." (Though in the region where I took that photo, orphan/rejected calves are called "leppies," not "dogies.")

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/msbellows/statuses/116406294249939701https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/msbellows/statuses/116406294249939701Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:11:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:09:20 GMT]]>@msbellows @Tamami @sunumbral

"Whoppie ti yi yo, whoppe ti yi yo, git along little dogies!"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/ai6yr/statuses/116406285785105008https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/ai6yr/statuses/116406285785105008Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:09:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:08:03 GMT]]>@Tamami That would be an awesome painting. The reflection in the water is nice .

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