It sounds cold but beautiful! I live in the Midwest and I actually had a mountain lion in my yard in town! Your photography and home are lovely!

Jaclynjo, it must have been unnerving to find a mountain lion in your back yard. However, on the plus side, I hear that mountain lion steak is delicious! We deal with the local lions by letting our Great Pyrenees dogs chase them off, as I am not into meat hunting, so to speak.

Anyhow, thank you for the compliment.

Yes it was! Originally I thought that there was a man crawling across my yard, and then under my porch!!! It was in the middle of the night, about 1 am I think, and I was sitting on my porch when I heard/saw it....then the next day my neighbor came over and told me that it was in the woods behind our houses and had been roaming around our area for a day or two. We lived just on the edge of the city and wild turkeys roamed about our backyard quite often, so it makes sense!!! Also, your photography truly is beautiful and I would love to have a link if you have it all on flickr or photobucket or online somewhere so I can see them all!!! Thanks again for sharing!

I hope the wild turkeys compensate for putting up with that mountain lion!

Thank you for the compliments. You can see more photos from my ranch at http://facebook.com/PrairieRoseRanch, http://horsestories.com, and videos at http://youtube.com/cmeinel

Thank you! I don't have facebook but I'll check the website! You are a very talented photographer!