wish I could come up with something witty to say about these cows...  I made the image on the last day of my autumn tour and just after I was turned around from trying to cross the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in the southern Washington Cascade Range... snow, turned me around, or rather the snowplow I was following that turned around influenced my decision.  So, I had to return south to the Columbia River to get to I-5 and homeward...   I met these cows near the river where it had just begun to snow and the cows were wandering as they do... even when they ran, their tracks wandered all over... and that says something...

In my experience, domestic animals wander but wild animals take a direct route... follow a pet dog's tracks and you're find that there seems to be no reason to the trail... just this way and that and some more that and return to a former location and then this way and that again... but a coyote or wolf track is unmistakable (beside size) in that they move across the land with purpose, no loitering here or there to visit this post or that mailbox to read the latest peemail...

so, how do I know these were domestic vice wild cows?  they wandered... plus, I don't think I've ever seen a wild cow. (bovine that is)

Tags: animals, snow, wa, white