Down on the creek

Don't know what this climbing vine is but it sure is pretty. Found it down on the creek while cutting limbs of sweet gum and pine for the mama goats. The does with kids are still in the big barn. Kids don't follow their mamas like lambs do. Does will put the kids in a certain spot or leave them in the barn, and go off and graze,  a deer does the same thing. I think this is their instinct to keep the baby away from predators. A ewe, keeps her lamb with her, calling her baby to follow out to pasture, she usually doesn't get far from her lamb. So, until the kids are older and ready to follow, they are staying in. The does are getting grain, grass hay, alfalfa hay and tree tops, they are milking very well and quite content, as long as the goatherder is bringing them meals on wheels.