Relaxed & Forward Blog

Care-giving and the Art of Mucking.

We have a shade tree next to the barn runs that gives the sweetest summer shade, but reeks havoc on...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Orange

Not my favorite color. Sometimes the sunsets are so outlandishly loud, so psychedelically overstated, that it almost changes the flavor...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Rule of Thirds

The Rule of Thirds is a design term used when an object is not centered, but instead has visual tension...
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The Grandfather Horse. Not Dead Yet.

I haven't written about the Grandfather Horse in over a year. Most of that time, I was scared half-to-death and...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Symmetry

Infinity Farm is on the flat, windy, treeless prairie, where there's no top to the sky and the low-billowing earth...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale

              Scale is when one recognizable object is used to define the size of...
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Photo Challenge- Shadowed

Moving to the high prairie was hard in the beginning--it was so different from what I'd known. It took a...
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The Last Goat Standing.

I've been trying to not write about goats all week. I wanted to write something inspiring about art and dressage....
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Weekly Photo Challenge- Warm.

Warm is a verb. The action that warm takes is to release things. Like when you lay in the sun...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Twinkle

Rescue Corgis, DBA The Little Men: Walter and the Preacher Man. This twinkle inspired by true love. Or maybe leftover...
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Seasonal Training Aids.

I'll speak for myself. It's only the middle of December and I'm a bit tired of this holiday season already....
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Weekly Photo Challenge- Gone, But Not Forgotten

Howdy Hero The Wild Texas Wind (Windy) Gone within days of each other, two years ago this month. Still family--dearly...
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Vet Visit! Breathing is Connection.

Emergency vet call! One of my boarded horses is sick. He's a draft cross, timid but kind. He likes things...
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Weekly Photo Challenge -Converge

A barn is a place of meeting and joining. We come from all different directions, all different experiences and all...
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Weekly Photo Challenge -Angular.

Farms are not very angular places and I will admit, my eyes are drawn to curves and not angles. Llamas...
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Weekly Photo Challenge – Achievement

We've been fifteen years on this little farm now and each of us has days to brag about. In the...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Mini-malist

Spartan. Austere. Spare. Not more than required. Mini-mialist.  Anything but... Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Cover Art.

What a strange idea for the photo challenge. Except for the fact I've been throwing ideas around for a book...
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