If Wishes were Horses..

This week Ree Drummond Pioneer Woman is having a photo assignment with horse pictures. I like to enter if I have or can take some photos. None of the horses in our area are out & about yet so I went looking on my computer for some older shots.

These were mostly all taken on the street where I live. There are several boarding stables here & and used to be a string of polo ponies too ( they got moved to FL a few years ago.) All but the draft horses were taken with a film camera.


 On wobbly legs!

 Another perspective of the previous group of horses.

 Happened to be out one day & saw this beautiful group of draft horses. 

I couldn't get the rhyme out of my head, so I found the words....

"If wishes were horses then beggars would ride,

If turnips were swords I'd have one by my side.

If 'ifs' and hands were pots and pans

There would be no need for tinkers hands"

Wordless Wednesday

Bike Ride Anyone?

I drive by this sculpture(?) quite often & decided to stop & take a picture today

 It's on the front lawn of the house of a landscape designer--it has miniature white lights on it.  It's probably hard to tell but it is covered in ivy--hopefully in a few months it will be green & lush--it didn't escape the hard winter either!

Macro Monday

Butterfly on a gaillardia ( that's the flower!) in my yard last year

Quilts!

I spent part of the day yesterday at our State ( CT ) Fair Association meeting.  One thing that is done at the spring meeting is the winning quilts from all the fairs around the state are brought to the meeting & judged against each other.

 These are just some of the beautiful quilts that were entered.  We were told that they only had about half the number of quilts that were entered last year!

 Aren't they beautiful?  I can only imagine the countless hours that are put in to turn out these masterpieces!

 close up of one....

 Another close up

More Home on the Range

The neighbor's bison were up by the road this morning so I hopped out of my car to get a few photos.

 I found out they're a little skittish....When I got about 5 feet away they moved further back in the field

 You can see the area they are in in this photo is pretty chewed up!  They stay out all winter, through all the snow & cold weather.

 So, last week they started fencing in the field that is across from the end of our driveway.  Don't know yet if they are getting more or are doing it just to have another place to move them to.  The field has been used for growing hay in the past. ( the snow in the photo has melted!)

Kent Falls, Kent, CT

 I decided to go for a short ride to see what Kent Falls looked like in the snow.  I wasn't disappointed!  The falls are a short walk from the parking lot and I had the park to myself.

 I love coming here in the spring & summer & climbing up to the top of the falls--there are steps and a pathway all the way up.

Next year I might even come back when there's more snow on the ground!