Sheep Shearing
 Photo Album: Sheep Shearing |
July is the month for shearing sheep in the Faroe Islands. Saturday morning the men went up in the mountains and brought the sheep down to the sheep fold just above the town. In the afternoon I went up the hill to watch the sheep shearing with my children, Jonathan, Natasha, and her husband John, who are visiting me from California. There were about 130 sheep from this section of the mountain that were brought down for shearing, owned by about twenty or thirty families. It was such a beautiful, sunny day that we actually got sunburned.