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Weekly Photo Challenge: Treat

Happy Halloween: May the ghost herd be remembered. Indulge me. It's a throw-back image from years ago, but I'm missing...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Careful

Be careful to listen; careful to draw close on navy blue nights. Let the clouds be a nearness of spirit...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: (Extra)ordinary

(Extra)ordinary: Maybe it's a choice; just a fuller way of embracing the ordinary. If we keep our eyes fresh and...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy Place

It's no surprise--my Happy Place is always with the herd. Here's the Grandfather Horse. I'm hoping winter will be kind...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Boundaries

Arthur is very pleased to note that I have placed 'goat nests' in the runs. And if that isn't enough,...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Grid

A fence is a grid of separation. It's used to keep some of us inside and to keep others of...
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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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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: Inspiration.

"Just a horse." A $600. stud colt. Out of Nifty Sally; no pedigree to speak of. Not especially athletic.  ...
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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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Weekly Photo Challenge: Half and Half

Polarities Bold and timid. Turbulent and still. Deliberate and spontaneous. Stoic and emotional. Powerful and frail. Physical and spiritual. Eternal...
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Weekly Photo Challenge- Symbol

You know the best symbol for a horse, don't you? The one that says all is well; healthy horses are...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Door

I have pounded on some mighty doors and been locked out of others. I've even kicked a few in. I...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Muse

Sometimes I see a father playing with his child, tossing her in the air and catching her, holding her tight...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Vivid

The memories are as vivid as black and white, as stark as night and day, and as real as skin...
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