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Weekly Photo Challenge: Up

Edgar Rice Burro. Easy to look UP to, in so many ways. Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. WordPress Photo Challenge is...
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Relationship Status: It's Complicated.

I've been thinking about the words we use to label our relationship with the animals in our lives. It isn't...
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Weekly Photo Challenge – Change

Change. Inevitable. Necessary. Not always pretty. “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs...
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Mutual Respect and Trust, at Any Size.

I love working with ponies and minis. I know it isn’t politically correct for a dressage queen. I don't think...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Color

One of the first things you notice about living on the plains is that it's kind of... well, plain. There...
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NEW BARN RULES

 I was at a barn recently, talking to the manager about a client who would be hauling her mule in. ...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: A Day in My Life

Live a day in my life, walk a mile in my shoes, before you judge me. Well, judge sounds harsh,...
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Lead Mare/ Musical Chair

I’m lucky to have a herd of horses under my care. Some people call it horse poor, but I feel...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."   Victor Hugo. Future tense: You sit here. Anna Blake,...
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Sharing Horses with Little Sisters.

Paris and Boots, Photo by Mom. Ah, Spring! When a young girl's thoughts turn to... horses....
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Lunchtime

I confess that I do not understand taking pictures of food. Nothing against it, I just don't get it. Unless...
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Why We Love Them.

I had a philosophy teacher who believed that vulnerability was our greatest strength. I debated her; my shell was pretty...
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Weekly Photo (Phoneography) Challenge: My Neighborhood

The sunrise lives at the end of my driveway. To the west, past the Infinity Pond and Pikes Peak, the...
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Balancing Priorities

Talk is cheap in the horse world, like most places. We talk about what our horses mean to us and...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Lost in the Details.

It's hard to get lost in the detail on the flat, windy, treeless prairie, the detail here is minimal. But...
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A Flying Change… of Season.

We've had a long spell of nasty weather. Snow is one thing and wind is another, but a combination of...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Forward

I use the word forward every day. In equine terms, it defines a preferred way of moving, but Edgar Rice...
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Walter, Walter, Walter.

Walter is starting to settle in with us. Now I get to go to the bathroom by myself… about once...
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