Along the way, Moooo-ve over

We slowed down when we suddenly saw some critters strollin' down the road.  Going south from Old Fort, NC to Painter's Nursery on Saturday, this is what greeted us.  A lot of tails.

The four bovine youth were out on an adventure, not paying much attention to us, but also not letting us pass.

Cars coming toward us were already stopped, so they just ambled by.  How were we to get around them?  The ditch on our side dropped away too much, they had no interest in it.

As if Cathy had herded cows every day in her VW, she just slipped up on the right, and as long as it was a straight-away, we finally were able to slip by.

I hadn't noticed all the other cars behind us with the same problem, until we were finally in the clear.

When we came back the same road on the way home an hour or so later, we wondered where they had wandered to, and how their owner would retrieve them.  Cowboys and trailers wanted!