Monday Portraits of Dozens of Sheep

It’s Sheep Central round here. More than can ever – surely – enter the food chain. Far more than the wool trade requires. At shearing time, you’ll pass barns full of discarded fleeces, not worth the effort of gathering up and attempting to sell them. The sheep are well-fenced here – usually – so they don’t get out and browse the grass to the very ground, or maraud in any woodland they find. All the same, I do rather wonder – why so very, very many?

But here are two handsome enough specimens –

And here are some hungry sheep, requiring a top-up of food.

And here’s one on the moor above Dallowgill. Monarch of all she surveys.

Author: margaret21

I'm retired and living in North Yorkshire, where I walk as often as I can, write, volunteer, and travel as often as I can.

49 thoughts on “Monday Portraits of Dozens of Sheep”

    1. Don’t ask me – I don’t eat it. But we are more than self sufficient, producing more than is needed. And of course, those wonderful post-Brexit trade deals will allow in even more…

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  6. No 2 looks like a little devil with those horns. There’ll soon be lambs gambolling all over the hillsides. Personally I can’t wear lambswool, makes me itch, but you would think there would be some use for it.

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    1. I know! Heritage breeds do OK for their special wools, and I think quite a lot is used in insulation and similar. But yes, I too can’t abide a woolly jumper.

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  9. Win some, lose most, when it comes to sheep’s wool. It is probably superior to all other forms of insulation for building but, unfortunately, is far more expensive to produce in the correct form. Come the apocalypse I shall round up a few dozen, along with goats for their milk!

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  10. They look kind of like Easter sheep, with their colored wool. We saw sheep roaming in Norway, each had a bell and the sound was amazing as they moved around. At first they thought we had come to feed them and they were all congregating around us…then they figured out we were not their people and they wandered off.

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  14. Such a shame about abandoned fleeces. Love that second shot, I think of sheep as being a bit daft but that one has a wise face. Soon be lambing season, there’ll be some cuties then!

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  15. Lots of sheep here too! Lovely ones! I can’t wear wool either unless it is somehow prepared or is lined with cotton or something. But we have some whole fleece(?) or what do you call them?in our sofas .

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  16. Whenever I see photos of sheep, I think of J.S. Bach’s “Sheep May Safely Graze.” I remember my mother playing this on the piano when I was a child. It a timeless and beautiful piece of music, evoking feelings of contentment and joy. Your photos are a reminder of the beauty of nature and the importance of taking time to appreciate the simple things in life. Many thanks Margaret.

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  17. Oh I am with Peter’s Pondering here, definitely should be some way to encourage wool insulation for buildings (subsidies from taxing the fossil fuel brigade?) and stop wool waste.

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  18. Oh, this lovely collection of great pics reminds me so much of my time in beloved Devon. When ‚en route‘ to work in wonderful Dartington, I saw ahead of my way a completely circular field where sheep were roaming peacefully. From a distance they appeared like small moving white dots. An impossibly peaceful and joyful picture which made me so happy to live and work in such an idyllic county. Sadly, for the sheep, I also love eating lamb…. Although thinking of ‚my‘ sheep, it certainly turns my appetite off!

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    1. There’s something about sheep in a landscape that is quite idyllic – till they all start baah-ing at once! Hope all is going well with you Kiki.

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