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Weekly Photo Challenge: Beneath Your Feet.

Edgar Rice Burro is right to be concerned. These lettuce-colored Crocs (beneath my feet) are not safe barn-wear. They say...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Close Up.

Close up. Personal. Intimate. Sharing breath is sacred. No matter who does it. Eeow! You're kidding, right? He smells like...
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Wake-up Call from Mother Nature. For the Millionth Time.

I haven't missed a blog posting in over five and a half years, and I won't now, but this one...
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The Thing About Horses and Healing: a Memoir.

We see them from the road and use phones to take photos. We keep a legal distance but most of...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: "ROY G. BIV."

"ROY G. BIV." is a lousy acronym for the colors of the rainbow. Who ever thought this was a clever...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: On the Way (to Forever)

Another day rolls on and another night creeps forward, on the way to the place mortality rests. If there is...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Enveloped

The prairie sky leans in closer at night, weaving a soft cocoon around our farm. We are enveloped with a...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Forces of Nature.

Gravity--it's a dependable force of nature. Look how well it works. (Gravity Hiccup) Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. WordPress Photo Challenge...
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To Rest in Peace.

They aren't getting any younger. Most of us spend a certain amount of time between riding and mucking, just watching...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Intricate

This beautiful world is an intricate balance of fine detail and huge brush strokes, of yearning and satisfaction, of unthinkable...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Motion.

It's all fun and games until... ...somebody takes a dive. (He's fine. He meant to do that.) Anna Blake, Infinity...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Early Bird.

Before I came to live on the prairie, I always thought bird-watching was for eggheads; something for people with no...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Afloat.

Afloat: Llamas are animals from another planet; everything about them is sideways of the usual. They look like badly put-together...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Blur.

A wild thunderstorm rolled through during the afternoon of a sweltering blur of a day. Sweat and rain mixed, leaving...
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Horses and Tulips.

At some distant moment in the past, probably after seeing The Miracle of the White Stallions when I was a...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Ephemeral.

Like a northern breeze across the prairie: just an instant of a moment in an hour of her life. Forever...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh

Fresh... ...bug season is here. Something to quack about after an icy winter. Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. WordPress Photo Challenge...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Wall

My muck cart is blue, with perfect balance and foam-filled wheels, and I prefer wooden handles on my muck forks....
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