Damn good lookin' cow

So Sparky and I went for a mountain bike ride this afternoon. He found this great trail (great = not very steep).

It was a route on a plateau in the mountains above Nice. You pretty much rode around the rim of the plateau overlooking the surrounding mountains and orange topped villages below. to get to the rim, you rode through a few trees changing colors for the autumn. Really pretty.

On the way back we rode past a couple of cows in a fenced in area. Two lovely ladies. Both milk chocolate brown, clean (not covered in poop and mud like most we've seen), big shinny bells hanging on huge leather collars around their necks. They were curious about us (because we stopped to look) so they came over to where we were. One even licked Sparky's hand (then licked inside her own nose - long tongue)...but I gotta admit, the nose licker was just a really pretty cow. There's something I never thought I'd be saying...but she looked like something you'd see on a grocery store container of whatever they decide to put a cow's picture on.