You won't believe what happened yesterday---it was like a dream! 
I live in a village development of apartment-style homes in Auburn, Alabama. One of the best things about my end unit is that I have a decent view of the lake, a much appreciated amenity when I’m working at my computer and able to enjoy the view.
Within a one-mile radius of where I live is a movie theatre, a shopping mall, a row of restaurants, some new subdivisions, a medical park and Lee Scott Academy. This is anything but uncongested countryside!
Yesterday (Groundhog Day, right?), I was at my computer, working on a flyer… listening to piano sonatas in the background…when…did someone say MOOVE?! When I looked up out the window, COWS WERE LOOKING IN! Can you imagine my surprise?
Close friends and family know how much I love cows. They’ve always brought me some “magical” feeling, perhaps inspired from the vivid memory of a cow-jumping-over-the-moon mobile that hung in my bedroom of early childhood.
At first, you know, the disbelief of the scene is trying to register while my heart sprints into a hundred miles a minute pace…I scared my cats to bits as I grabbed my phone and camera and raced out the door. The management office answered my call to let them know that “cows are here!” “Oh, someone called who is looking for them,” they told me.
So here are some pictures I was able to snap, following them towards a parking lot where they must have felt cornered, because then the ones in the back---I thought they were smiling for the photos as they seemed to be staring at my camera--- began sort of charging towards me and the others followed suit. I raced back up the incline from the lake, back towards my place, hearing their stampeding behind me, synchronized with my heart rhythm! They kept on along the lake, towards the backside of another building, and, I expect back towards home. On my side, somehow, the grass looks greener now.
I hope they enjoyed their visit as much as I did!
SOUND UP & ENJOY THE SHOW - URBAN BLUE RODEO!
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YOU JUST LOVE THE MOOING dontcha!! Funny story Mara!!!
I love days like that !
The unexpected always gives a little boost to the norm :o)
Cute story Mara !
Cheers !
Sheldon
Hi Mara, Thanks for the MOOOVING video. The cattle look like they were having an adventure touring around the lake. BTW, they are called steers (boys, not girls-cows). They are black angus breed & the white faced ones are the hereford breed!
Mara, ps- what program did you use to create the slide show? THX.
Mara - at the risk of sound like Bruce Willis in Die Hard - Yippee Ki Yay little dogies! Thanks for the slide show.
That was fun! I can imagine how excited you were. Can you imagine how excited those cows were to be on their adventure..."we're free" I'm sure they were thinking. Great slideshow with very creative narration! Those pics are very good for a phone camera.
Cute story...My cows right now are all around the barn trying to keep warm and out of the wind!
Mara, that's certainly something you don't see every day! How fun and great that you were able to catch so many photos before they got tired of that!
Dear Mara,
It was quite a moooving video. Cattle are not known for leading exciting lives... but apparently this heard is atypical!! By the way if you have more than one, the plural is cattle.
Adios pardner!
:)
Mara, you have got to stop eating those "magic" mushrooms in the middle of the day. Oh well, you have photos so you're cool. But if you told me this story without the photos, I would go with the mushrooms as the answer to what was going on : ) Hey, I really sensed you needed a break in the action anyway. Cool story.
Mara, That is SO cute! I wonder what significance cows have...And did we all have that mobile :)?
Mara - so you're working on real estate 'til the cows come home? What a lighthearted diversion for the day. I'm glad you were there to take it all in.
Kathy - OH yeah....
Sheldon - it made my day---my week up to that point, actually!
Marian - You really know your cows! That's very interesting and I'm glad to put some names with faces! Also, this was with Jeff Turner's realestateshows.com---cool stuff!
Mike - I can hear that perfectly!
Sharon - I like that perspective...I, too, imagine what they are thinking...and 'I grabbed my phone AND my camera'...separate items :-)
Vern - wish I could come by for a visit...sounds beautiful!
Ann - And it all took place in less than 5 minutes!
Betina - I do hope I added some excitement to THEIR lives---they sure brought much joy to mine.
Gary - Even the folks at work wouldn't have believed me, had I not had "the evidence"... I'm going to carry my camera around more often---and expect the magic :-)
Carole - Yes, I later wondered about that...some symbolism for Mother Earth and abundance...if 2009 ends up really well, I'll thank my lucky cows :-)
Lynn - LOL! And are you keeping warm there in MN? I know, in spit of the cold, it is beautiful. thanks for stopping by :-)
Mara- Nice Blue Cow show.....you're right, noone would believe you since you're not out in the country. How fun, I love those spontaneous activities :) I'm still trying to picture you running back to your apartment....wonder if any of them had a camera..... LOL :)
That is such a cute story. Can't imagine having cows out my window and I DO live in the uncongested countryside, in fact in the dairy capitol of Georgia. But alas, no cows wandering through my neighborhood.
This is a great post. Cows looking in. Thanks for sharing this story
Don