Are you a cowgirl?

 

My sweet grandfather 

raised horses and cows

on the farm where I grew up.

 

 

I liked the horses, 

but I loved the cows ---

and they were herefords,

polled herefords.

"Grandpap" was sweet and gentle,

just like his docile herd.

 

Polled herefords have 

big sweet wide faces and

gorgeous caramel brown eyes with

long eyelashes. 

 

 

I am mad for cows 

(and the paintings on this post.)

Are you a cowgirl too?

 ARTISTS REPRESENTED...

1.  The Cowherd, 1888, Theodore Robinson

2. Old Man with Cow, 1913, Willy Sluyters

3. Peasant Girl Grazing a Cow at the Forest, 

(date unknown) Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

4. A Milkmaid with her Cows on a Summer day, 

(1851-1910) Julien Dupre'

4. Cow and Girl in the Windsor Great Park, 1809, Paul Sandby

5.  Polled Hereford by Greg Karas/GregKaras.com

6. Girl Tending Cow in a Pasture, 1874, Camille Pissarro (below)