What's black and white and red all over?

This photo of BB at his morning toilette, that's what! Even the tourists dressed to match his spiffy red lead rope.

Because I haven't posted in a long, long time...

Tomahawk from about a month or so ago, modeling his big boy haircut.

On a roll...

Pete's end of the day ritual. (It kinda negates the bath, but, hey, if it makes him feel good, I can groom a little more in the morning.)

The next great American Spotted Draft

Spot has a protegé. His name is Speck Tomahawk.

Up past Merlin's bedtime

Bubba the Round

"Is it OK to work a horse when it's pregnant?"

"Well, up to a point, but HE's not pregnant."

"When's she due?"

"HE's not. HE is just really, really fat."

Bubba barely fits in the shafts. He's one half of the hypothetical good ol' boy team of Bubba and Jimbo. Bubba and Jim are about the same height. But they are NOT the same width.

A Percheron a day, while Peter's away

Per the request of the Italian Stallion, my beloved husband, Peter, and much in the spirit of Percheron-International, I am providing him with pictures of our equine friends while he is away in France.

There are no Percherons in today's pictures, but if you take half of Belle and half of Bo, you get a whole Percheron (the leftovers make a Quarab). Unfortunately, I also did not get pictures of Belle and Bo chasing Kaylee, the miniature horse filly, around the pasture.


Janni, Bo, and Belle in New Jersey.





Janyck enjoys a good roll.

Mmmmmm... Snow Day

(Bill got a taste of the snow this morning.)

Philadelphia received about 3 inches of snow this morning, so naturally, the horses didn't go out to work--it was a snow day! I did go out to the barn this morning, and captured a few of the horses (Bill, Ben, Tom and Buzz) enjoying the snow. Actually, Tom was enjoying the snow so much, he repeatedly let Ben out of his stall to come join him (which is why Ben and Tom are in the small yard together).

Enjoy!


(Tom let Ben out of his stall to join in the snowy fun.)


(Trotting twosome.)


(Bill was eating when he got "scared" by a guy on skis out in the neighborhood.)


Bill and Ben visit across the fence.


(Buzz was disappointed he couldn't get Tom to run in circles with him, once Ben was back securely in his stall.)

All that surrounds us...

View from the back of our barn in Northern Liberties, April 2007.

A couple of quotes today from everyone's favorite French emperor (that would be Napoleon):

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

We live and die in the midst of marvels.

And yet, there is always more to say...

(Belgian draft horse at the Kentucky Horse Park, January 2008, photo by Christina Hansen)

A couple of quotes for today:

"This curious world which we inhabit is more wonderful than it is convenient, more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used."
(Henry David Thoreau, commencement address, Harvard University, 1837)

"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it." (James A. Baldwin)


(Spanish Norman at the Kentucky Horse Park, August 2004, photo by Christina Hansen)

What's New over at thedrafthorse.com

Despite my being busy at work, I have added quite a bit to my website, thedrafthorse.com. I've added sections about my lighthouse photography and about my favorite draft horses, my coworkers.