Pat & Sharon O'Toole: Season's turning

It is almost time for the first day of summer. We are finally seeing green grass and leafy trees. The winter storms have brought us abundant moisture--a welcome balm after years of drought. We have lambs and calves on the ground and are counting our blessings.

We are especially looking forward to Mid-Summer's Eve, when our youngest, Eamon, will marry his sweetheart, Megan, in Ten Sleep, Wyoming. I'm betting there will be little rest as the whole community, and many of our family and friends turn out for the festivities.

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Ewe hiding her new lamb
Cottonwood BLM pasture
photo by Sharon O'Toole

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Vladimir on Lakota
Cottonwood BLM pasture
photo by Sharon O'Toole

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Guard dog on late snowdrift
Cottonwood BLM pasture, Carbon County, Wyoming
photo by Sharon O'Toole

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Breaking new ground
Above the Mesa
photo by Sharon O'Toole

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Branding the new cows
Home Ranch
photo by Sharon O'Toole

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All hands AND the cook, Gail
Upper Meadow
photo by Sharon O'Toole

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Lunch break
Tono, Edgar, Siobhan and Vladimir
photo by Sharon O'Toole

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George and Seamus
photo by Sharon O'Toole

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Grandpa and Siobhan
photo by Sharon O'Toole

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Seamus getting ready for the big leagues
photo by Pat O'Toole

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Gelbvieh bull, Angus/Gelbvieh cow, reflected
Home Ranch
photo by Pat O'Toole

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Little Snake River floodwaters
photo by Sharon O'Toole

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Flooded oxbow
Luchsinger Place
photo by Sharon O'Toole

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About Pat & Sharon O'Toole

Pat and Sharon O’Toole are ranchers in the Little Snake River Valley near Savery, Wyoming, right on the Colorado-Wyoming border. They raise cattle, sheep, horses, dogs and children. Pat “immigrated” from Florida in 1970. He attended Colorado State University, where he met Sharon when both worked for the campus newspaper. Sharon grew up on their ranch, where they live and work with her father, their daughter, son and granddaughter (soon to be grandchildren!). Pat is a “water buffalo” and has served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1986-1992), on the President’s Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission, and is the current President of the Family Farm Alliance, which advocates for farmers, ranchers and irrigators. Sharon is an author, poet and journalist. She writes extensively on Western issues and is a columnist for “The Shepherd” magazine. Pat and Sharon are the parents of three children: Meghan, 27; Bridget, 26; and Eamon, 20.

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