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asked if I could just take some pictures of the llamas, because I love to spend time with animals of all kinds - they were just so warm, and gracious, and welcoming. And the best thing, for me, is after they introduced me to their animals, they just gave me the freedom to be with them for as long as I wanted.”
Among the experiences Gwen and Clyde recount most fondly are the couple’s visits with the llamas to handicapped homes and institutions for the mentally challenged.
“In Roanoke once,” Gwen says, “there was a lady who could not let go of the wall - she had been holding onto the wall, in some way, for I don’t know how many years. Over the course of a weekend, she went from holding onto the wall to holding the nurse’s hand while the nurse walked the llama - to walking, outdoors, leading the llama herself”
“It’s these animals,” adds Clyde. “They just know how to communicate.”
When the pair traverse the short distance to the barns (Clyde walks; Gwen gets around the farm in a six-wheel-drive John Deere Gator, which “I don’t know what I do without”), so that some of their prize-winning llamas can meet the visitor, it’s abundantly clear that they’ve been doing something they were meant to do.
(Which is how they also look at their next life, incidentally. “Ashby Ponds has restaurants, fitness centers, shuttles to shopping, the Kennedy Center - and to Dulles. We like that fact a lot,” says Gwen. “We very much love
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