Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign

Foreign no More. We are a melting pot: Polish, Iberian, Canadian, Irish, Native American- and those are just the horses. Our ancestors came from far lands but we have all come to rest here. Gratefully home. Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to share a photo- I enjoy twisting these … Read more

What's More Natural Than Piaffe?

“Will you come over and ride our horse?” she asked. “We know he’s a dressage horse, we just don’t know how to cue him, but if you rode him…  He does that trot in one place thing.” (I already knew they bought this elderly horse from their ‘trainer’, who tranquilized him for them to try … Read more

Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette

“God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.” says Scarlett, in the movie Gone with the Wind, in silhouette. These two horses are not so dramatic, or hungry- but I do love a silhouette. Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to share a photo- I enjoy twisting these macro … Read more

The Relative Misery Factor (Prepping for Winter.)

The wind positively howled. There was sun, not that you could feel it. The horses didn’t want turn out. It was 20 degrees warmer in the south-facing runs and there’s not much windbreak on our prairie pasture. The horses that were turned out looked longingly at the barn and I knew the season has truly … Read more

Weekly Photo Challenge: Big

Well, size is so often a question of perspective. But sometimes size is altered by our emotions, too. We had the very worst moth season this year, I wrote about it here. I just got to that point, you know, they just drove me a little nuts. There were hundreds of millions of moths, and … Read more

Farm Politics: It Takes All Kinds.

It Takes All Kinds. And here at Infinity Farm, we have all kinds. In fact, we have inter-species chaos. I want to affirm that I like order. But I’m the minority here, so not everyone goes along with my type-A fantasies. Exactly like real life, we don’t all fit into little boxes. Sure, I have … Read more

Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy

It was last summer- a storm with lots of thunder and lightning, and a downpour of steamy rain. That was followed by siblings galloping and mud rolling and galloping some more. That was followed by Happy. Anna, Infinity Farm. WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to share a photo- I enjoy twisting these macro … Read more

Hard-Headed Women.

Bull-headed, sometimes pig-headed: these are names that you might call an obstinate tomboy of a daughter. It wasn’t meant as a compliment. Did you ever hear those names around your house? I prefer the term hard-headed. In 1970, Cat Stevens (then) put out my personal teen angst album, and it had a song entitled Hard … Read more