We’ve had a lot of misty-moisty mornings lately, and I turned this photo up when looking for soft-focus shots for this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. This isn’t for that challenge: I just thought this hardy creature deserved her five minutes of fame as a Monday Portrait.
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
She doesn’t seem remotely bothered, does she, Margaret, and it’s a beautiful shot. I have a few very different sheep coming up shortly. Happy Monday!
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Thanks Jo. Eager to see what you have to offer now.
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It’s a silly one.
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Ever so good Margaret. I just love love it. Everything is just perfect 🙂
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Oh, Brian, thank you. What a nice sentiment to greet me this windy morning!
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I love that shot with its tree set off against the mist, not to mention that slightly defiant looking sheep!
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Thank you! I can never read sheepish expressions, so I’m glad you can 😉
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I was brought up in a part of the country where sheep were allowed to roam wherever they liked although they were pretty sorry looking specimens.
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I bet they didn’t go all that far. They don’t look like hikers to me.
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They tended to huddle miserably by the side of the road.
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Oh dear 😦
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You haven’t met Cornish sheep! They can climb over Cornish hedges, under fences, through pallets! There’s no stopping them – and they have made a right mess of my car park garden 😨
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Oh I say! They sounds as though they might have brain cells!
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😂
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A lovely atmospheric photo, Margaret! I wonder if the sheep is looking for its friends in the mist?! Soon shearing time, I see!
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Yes, fairly soon for shearing. Not yet though. Brrrr. Her friends were quite nearby, luckily.
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She has a sweet face
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I’ll tell her. She’ll be delighted 😉
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Please do Margaret
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😉
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The star of the show is, to my mind, the tree in all its soft focus splendour, but the sheep looks gentle so we’ll forgive her gatecrashing! Tee hee….I know it’s really all about Mrs Sheep
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No, she really needed her stage-set to perform to full advantage, I think.
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😊
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Love this one Margaret. Every picture tells a story and this shot has numerous potential stories to share. Hope the winds die down soon. All calm down here. Just misty moisty.
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The wind may finally die down soon. We’re at an invigorating 20 mph at the moment. Right – off to think about all the stories you might be proposing!
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Oi missus, do you mind! You’re blocking my view!
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‘s a free country. I got here first.
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No, ewe was first!
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It’s been like that here since the middle of last week! Where are the blue skies? I love the soft focus tree and the rather fat sheep (or maybe it is a ram) looking somewhat contemptuous at having her/his photo taken.
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No, she’s a ewe alright. Very odd weather here – the sky all kinds of sky-suitable colours, including rainbows. The only constant is the wind.
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And weirdly we have no wind hence the constant fog!
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You’d think The Weather could share it out a bit.
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I love this! The mist gives everything a dream-like quality and the way the sheep has turned to look directly at you is a real bonus!
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Thank you – she was obliging, wasn’t she? And you’re back to damp and windy reality in the UK, I suppose?
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Still in Colombia – just! Pick-up for the airport coming in two hours ☹☹
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Ooooh. But you’ve got a decent Memory Bank I think.
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Yes, and several more trips lined up to look forward to!
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Hooray! But for now …. welcome home.
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Oh Margaret, this photo is perfection. Love the fog 😀
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Fog is quite friendly to the photographer, isn’t it?
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I really really like this image!
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Thanks. I like it too, and it seems to have gone down well.
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There is a special kind of magic in this photography, Margaret. Love how your position the sheep with the tree.
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She did it all by herself!
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😀😀😀
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Beautiful photo!
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Thanks Cindy. This sheep was ready to pose.
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Perfect, Margaret! I so love the tranquility of this image, Nice! 🙂
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Thanks Amy. It was a nice quiet moment.
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We live near the coast so have been getting a lot of coastal fog recently – it makes for an interesting drive because we keep going from sunshine to fog to sunshine
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It’s a bit like that here, as we have no fewer than three rivers – and a canal too – nearby.
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Brilliant capture, Margaret. Especially with the contrast between the sheep and mist.
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Thank you – both so white, she could easily disappear, couldn’t she?
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Perfect! Nothing softer than thick wool! 😉
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And so necessary in our climate!
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Perfect shot… the softness of a misty morning and a beautiful sheep. Now that is how I like sheep to be… so natural looking without all those spray colours they wear. 😀 😀 😀
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Yes, they tend to be colour free at this time of year. But once the lambs come, that’ll be a different story.
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Yep… which is such as shame.. It makes editing out that colour from their fleece flaming awkward and painstaking.
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Luckily, I have so many sheep photos it’s not a problem. That kind of editing is way beyond my pay grade in any case.
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Normally it can be easily done with the clone/heal brush but sometimes they have so much paint on them.. there is not enough fleece to clone from 😀 😀 😀
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What a poser and quite the model sheep!
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She looks as if she could have been made of pipe cleaners and stuffed, so yes, a model sheep.
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Great tree and great sheep! I agree she does not look happy having her photo taken, but still posing nicely! I love that misty look – no fog here though, but windy too.
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Here, the wind has gone at last – and the mist has returned!
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But it is beautiful too…the mist. Wind is the worst thing, especially wind and rain.
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She looks quite formidable! Misty-moisty is a great description of that sort of morning, there’s been a few of those down here too.
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The phrase comes from a poem I knew as a child:
One misty moisty, morning,
When cloudy was the weather,
There I met an old man
Clothed all in leather.
Clothed all in leather,
With a cap under his chin.
How do you do?
And how do you do?
And how do you do again?
Funny the things you remember .
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Misty-moisty is much more charming than the weatherman’s misting rain. Either way the ewe looks well insulated for the conditions hope you were too.
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We were. Living in Yorkshire teaches you to muffle up.
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well she is beautifully captured by you
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And she knows it 😉
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Thank goodness she has that big woolly coat!
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Definitely needed!
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What a lovely, hazy vision! It always really amazes me, how very very different the different breeds of sheep are – I had no idea when I was a Londoner!!
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Absolutely! I wrote about – and illustrated – this when I was new to North Yorkshire: https://margaret21.com/2014/10/01/a-sheep-is-a-sheep-is-a-sheep/
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– Who Knew there was so much variety… I must follow your lead, and find myself a Sheep Show!
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They’re full of innocent fun. Just find one!
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