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Diana J. Schmid
Looking into her family leaves you to wonder, where did she come from? Her brothers and sister are all business minded, modern day people. Her parents and grandparents were city dwellers. Diana on ...view moreLooking into her family leaves you to wonder, where did she come from? Her brothers and sister are all business minded, modern day people. Her parents and grandparents were city dwellers. Diana on the other hand seems to have been born 150 years too late. Surrounded with dogs, chickens, cows, goats, horses, donkeys and mules, she raised her son five miles off the power grid in Northern Nevada and would much rather drive a buggy than a car.
Her Great Great Grandfather patented the first hand held camera in the world, called the Schmids Detective Camera, in 1883. Photography has always been a big part of their family life. And over the 13 years she was a Veterinary Technician, she also became a Veterinary Radiologist taking the family photography to a new level.
Her brothers wanted motorcycles. Her sister wore make up, and curlers in her hair. But Diana? She bottle raised goats, rescued orphan and injured wildlife and groomed dogs. Her parents would not allow her to have a horse so she put up a fence in their one acre clearing and boarded horses. All along she dreamed of owning a white mule.
Looking beyond her parents and grandparents she found her roots. Her Great Grandfather, Samuel Cooley had a farm and teams of white mules. A fact she did not even know until she was 35 years old. Over the years she raised orphans of all kinds, swallows, opossum, owls, raccoons, puppies, mustangs, lambs and calves but her crowning glory was in 2003 when she acquired a white, orphan mule. It seemed like destiny and without hesitation he was named SaMule Cooley.
Whether feeding, cleaning, riding, building fence or taking photographs, Dianas focus in life is Mules!view less