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Weekly Photo Challenge: CLOSE

Horse Yoga. So very close- it's your breath that I exhale. Anna Blake Infinity Farm.
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Love + Fear = Confidence

It starts pretty much the same way for most of us: One day we see a horse. He's beautiful and...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Friendship

Friendship. This week I lost a friend, taken much too young. I hadn't been in touch for a few months...
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Helmet Advice from Your Horse.

Tomorrow is International Helmet Awareness Day. I usually mark the day by writing about horses and helmets. Every year I...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Today

Today: A million tomorrow shall all pass away, ‘ere I forget all the joy that is mine, today.  -lyrics by...
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Duke Ellington has a Message for Dressage Riders.

It goes without saying that Duke Ellington is right, about most everything. And even horses agree. But I get ahead...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Summer

The photo prompt is Summer, and it is Memorial Day. And each year I get older, days like this have...
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Edgar Rice Burro's Theatrical Debut…

... and what donkeys offer the real life dressage world. We're just home from Edgar Rice Burro's debut in the...
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Ruby Ranch Horse Rescue Benefit Clinic Flyer

This clinic will be a fun day with interesting activities for you and your horse. And come even if you...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Hands

Pinky Pledge Sometimes their lives are in our hands, and sometimes our lives are in their hands.  Trust can grow...
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Why I Have No Sense of Humor About Arena Footing.

I have no sense of humor about arena footing. None. Let me start here: I don't consider a plowed up...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Blue

 A different kind of blue eye: not blue- the color, and not blue- the emotion. Silver blue like a dream...
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Compassion for All Life. Not Quite.

This morning a lone Canadian goose flew over my pond, calling loudly- back and forth, and again. I wondered if...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Unfocused

We all love a good thunderstorm here at Infinity Farm. This spring is dry and I'm remembering a great storm...
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Do you think it’s time to clean the truck?

My hay guy got a new truck- a pristine dually in a pearlized-platinum color, with near Porsche-like lines. That big...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Together

Edgar Rice Burro and Holiday. Together. It isn't that they just love each other. Edgar would prefer Holiday not lay...
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A Legacy of Spirit

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." - Mae West ...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Sun

Our world revolves around the Sun. It provides warmth and creates a sense of time, giving a routine to life....
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