Category Archives: Images of our herd in specific

~o:> Autumn Continued

Picking up where we left off: Here we were, at the top of the ridge, looking down on this incredible grass valley. And we’re slowly lurching down this steep path. Now, pretend you’re me.  You’re not me.  But you could … Continue reading

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:: Flaming Autumn ::

I am certain this will be part one.  I took over 200 shots when we went up the mountain on Saturday – took the big camera in the gigantic camera case, slung across my back (and dangling at my side, … Continue reading

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:: Up the mountain ::

This header, I just wanted to explain, is just another one of my poor efforts to capture the river light.  You can see that the yard is dark – that dark, velvet green of late summer.  But the last light … Continue reading

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:::Minor Magic~

Like children, horses have to be told everything a thousand times.  Puppies, too.  It’s called training, but really, it’s just dogged insistence on the part of the responsible party.  Some people have a gift for doing it, others have it … Continue reading

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—:=Awake=:—

Awake. This is my year’s Word.  So it should define my stomping ground, my territory, my attitudinal homesteading rights.  But I am having trouble proving up my deed on it.  For one twelfth of this new year, I have been … Continue reading

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Double-dog 4

I am afraid I am wearing out my welcome here with these puppy pictures.  The problem is, we keep visiting them, and they keep being so dang cute, and there you are.  I will try not to be so verbose … Continue reading

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He’ll be going round the mountain . . .

M will be home, ten months from yesterday.  That was the first important thing about yesterday.  The second is that we ended up taking the colt for his FIRST LONG RIDE up the mountain.  It was a miracle of circumstance: … Continue reading

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Hot to trot

If a horse is going to blow up on you, there’s a good chance it’s going to happen in the rough seam between a trot and the canter. Which makes sense: if you’ve got a kid doing the dishes, and … Continue reading

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Facing the elephant

There’s all this stuff I want to write about. Even if nobody ever read this, I’d want to remember it, talk about it. But life is like this moving sidewalk on steroids, and things whip past before you have a … Continue reading

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Scrap Quilting

Not really. Scrap life-ing. Bits and pieces out of my image library. Not showing off my technique, just cool little moments. Grandson Young moms doing lunch in the park.  They let me stay. Old dog.  Losing his hearing.  But never … Continue reading

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