#17 Photoshoot!
Recently, we spent a couple of hours on a very cold Saturday afternoon with Mike of Fairbrother Photography, and had a lot of fun taking pictures! Well, I did. Flora could barely mask her disdain at being poked and prodded with brushes and coat shine for over an hour, especially after being brought in from the field an entire 119 minutes earlier than usual (how dare I?). A number of other things really got her goat during the shoot too. But other than that, she really enjoyed herself. The day began with me heading to the farm much earlier than usual, so that Flora could actually spend the same amount of time in the field as always (she forgot that part). It was a real risk pre-photo shoot, since the field was like the banks of a Tanzanian river after heavy rain and a visit from a herd of parched elephants. She was first out that morning and went cantering off to the brow of the hill, shouting for her boyfriend, then sheepishly mooched back to graze nearer the gate when she r