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In a Perfect World

In a perfect world you can tell the sheep from the dogs.

I Think She Needs a Margarita

 

Or perhaps a good tickle. 

Do you see how her hands are just a bit blurry?  She just  couldn't keep her hands from trying to work on that sock for the few minutes the exposure took.  See sock knitters?  This sock-knitting mania of yours has been going on for a long, long time!

This image is a daguerreotype, which dates the photo to about the late 1840's.

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Italian Shepherds

Shepherds moving their large flock across the Italian countryside.

Anyone who knows me will know why I love this card.

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Greek Spindler

 

This lovely image shows a Greek woman in native costume spinning with a distaff and spindle.  We can see quite a lot of detail about her costume as well as about her spindle and distaff and how she used them.

                                                             

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Irish Sheep

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BAA, BAA

Texel Sheep

Still continuing along in the Netherlands theme, I give you a Texel ram from the Isle of Texel in the north Netherlands:

I think some porcine blood must have crept in there somehow.  Yikes.  And some of you thought the Zwartbles were interesting looking. 

But he must have at least been a cute lamb, though, right?  Aren't all lambs cute? 

Oh, well, they're supposed to have nice dispositions.

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ZWARTBLES!

Continuing along in the Netherlands theme, I give you Zwartbles.

Without fleece:

 

And with fleece:

For some more photos, including some great action lamb shots, go take a look at this German site.

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Delft Shepherdess

This Delft tile is from the 18th century in the Netherlands.

This is what the shepherdess' farmhouse might have looked like.  The tile dates to approximately 1775.

Tiles like these were used as wall decoration and hearth surrounds.

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