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Weekly Photo Challenge: Monochromatic.

The best barn cats are monochromatic; they blend in. Unobtrusive lurkers, they're the color of dirt, hay, and shadow. A...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Connected.

  Most of us see herd dominance as a line--alpha to the "bottom." It's a limited one-dimensional view. When was...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: From Every Angle

  This pair: from every angle, even their shadows are joined--as close as skin. Anna...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Today Was a Good Day.

Living on the prairie isn't romantic. You always know the very worst things are just around the corner; there's always...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Creepy

It can feel creepy riding on the rail sometimes. It could be a feeling of foreboding. Dread almost. Something isn't...
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Singleton Dreams: Shedding in the Bedding

These are the dog days of summer--long and extreme. Not the kindest summer, either. My extended horse family has suffered...
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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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