2015 WP weekly photo challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Now

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Like a skater on ice, strong and effortless.   Anna Blake, Infinity Farm (WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to share a photo–I enjoy twisting these macro prompts to share our micro life here on the Colorado prairie. My photos are taken with my phone, on my farm. No psych, definitely not high tech.) … Read more

Weekly Photo Challenge: Gathering

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Gathering. Well, it’s one of my favorite things. A sweet meditative time with the good company of Edgar Rice Burro and the rest of my herd. Manure is the physical confirmation of everyone’s health; it’s the still time that my eyes run each body for injuries. Not to mention, it’s my greatest mental luxury. I … Read more

Weekly Photo Challenge: Oops.

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Oops!–It’s an empty can with no more grain-treats. Still, a smart goat would want to be thorough and double check. We pried the can off his head quite a few times but Arthur was insistent… maybe it was his intention all along to perform the fabulous death-defying Blindfolded Goat Table Dance. Dangerous to watch, too. … Read more

Weekly Photo Challenge: Victory

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Victory: Every day that I get to stand right here. (Passion is the easy part. Living with it is the challenge.)   Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. (WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to share a photo–I enjoy twisting these macro prompts to share our micro life here on the Colorado prairie. My photos are … Read more

Weekly Photo Challenge: Ornate

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An autumn shrubbery, ornate as a paisley tapestry, is gone on the wind, Rustling ahead of a polar flip toward winter’s invariant prairie. Hurry Spring. Just as quick.   Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. (WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to share a photo–I enjoy twisting these macro prompts to share our micro life here … Read more

Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy Place

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It’s no surprise–my Happy Place is always with the herd. Here’s the Grandfather Horse. I’m hoping winter will be kind to him. I’ve been living in the shadow of this particular horse for almost three decades, not quite of half my life. And I’m not the only one. Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. (WordPress Photo Challenge … Read more

Weekly Photo Challenge: Boundaries

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Arthur is very pleased to note that I have placed ‘goat nests’ in the runs. And if that isn’t enough, I change the bedding in them a few times a day. Who would ever want to leave this place? The world is full of boundaries, but not all of them deserve respect. It’s up to … Read more

Weekly Photo Challenge: Creepy

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009It can feel creepy riding on the rail sometimes. It could be a feeling of foreboding. Dread almost. Something isn’t quite right. Are you being watched? Maybe you’re imagining it.

Your horse sees him first. It’s that teenage barn cat, hanging on the fence like wadded-up laundry.

You blow it off, laugh at your horse for his foolishness. But he stays very alert and pushes a detour loop around the cat. Because he knows.

“I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, which they take for granted, but his or her entertainment value.” -Anonymous Cat.

Your horse thinks you are the one who doesn’t get it. What part of predator don’t you humans understand?

Anna Blake, Infinity Farm.

(WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to share a photo- I enjoy twisting these macro prompts to share our micro life here on the Colorado prairie. My photos are taken with my phone, on my farm. No psych, definitely not high tech.)

(Thanks, Megan. Hope you’re mending well.)

Stable_Relation_3D_Cover[1]Available now: Stable Relation, a memoir of one woman’s spirited journey home, by way of the barn. It’s the story of the farm I grew up on, the farm I have now, and the horse who carried me in between. Available at all online book sellers like Amazon and Barnes and Noble. To get updates and the inside story, sign up for my newsletter here: Prairie Moon News. Thank you.

“Creepy.”

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Close Up.

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sharing breath

Close up. Personal. Intimate.

Sharing breath is sacred. No matter who does it.

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Eeow! You’re kidding, right? He smells like wet wool.

Anna Blake, Infinity Farm.

Stable_Relation_3D_Cover[1]Available now: Stable Relation, a memoir of one woman’s spirited journey home, by way of the barn. It’s the story of the farm I grew up on, the farm I have now, and the horse who carried me in between. Available at all online book sellers now. To get updates and the inside story, sign up here: Prairie Moon News. Thank you.

(WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to share a photo- I enjoy twisting these macro prompts to share our micro life here on the Colorado prairie. My photos are taken with my phone, on my farm. No psych, definitely not high tech.)

“Close Up.”

Weekly Photo Challenge: Half and Half

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Polarities 

Bold and timid. Turbulent 
and still. Deliberate and 
spontaneous. Stoic and

emotional. Powerful and 
frail. Physical and spiritual. 
Eternal and painfully mortal.

 

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Anna Blake, Infinity Farm.

(WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to share a photo- I enjoy twisting these macro prompts to share our micro life here on the Colorado prairie. My photos are taken with my phone, on my farm. No psych, definitely not high tech.)

“Half and Half.”

Weekly Photo Challenge: Door

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I have pounded on some mighty doors and been locked out of others. I’ve even kicked a few in.

I can literally see my hand, in my mind’s eye, turn the knob. Some were doors to unknown opportunity and healing and possibility. There were other doors that I closed in order to care for myself better; doors to negative places that I outgrew as I knew more.

The best doors are the ones that are left wild open all the time; the door that welcomes us home, the door to “higher” learning.

Stable_Relation_3D_Cover[1]Anna Blake, Infinity Farm.

(WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to share a photo- I enjoy twisting these macro prompts to share our micro life here on the Colorado prairie. My photos are taken with my phone, on my farm. No psych, definitely not high tech.)
“Door.”