Portraits

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I was asked this summer to take Kara’s senior pictures. Since she was going to be here riding all summer and graduates from high school in December, her parents figured this would be easy. Yesterday we were able to take some of the pictures, and it was so much fun! I had a great time, [...]

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A Horse of Every Color, Part 2

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In the previous installment, we covered the basic horse colors: Bay, Black, Brown, Sorrel, Chestnut. Now we’ll delve into some of the more complicated colors. Not that they’re typically hard to distinguish, but they’re more complicated from a genetic standpoint. Here’s what colors we’ll learn: Dun, Buckskin, Red Dun, Grullo, Palomino. We have no shortage [...]

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Fun at the River

A couple weeks ago I took the kids to the river. We’ve been several times since the Fourth of July and always it’s been a great time. But this particular time, I took my camera and captured some great shots of them having lots of fun! Kelsey and Kara played “queen” of the inner-tube and [...]

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Family Love

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This is has been a summer of firsts here for the kids. Nine year old Ty has been doing a lot more riding this summer. So much more that he even had his first ride in the pasture to help us move cows a few weeks ago. He rode his sister’s steady mount, Pommel. He [...]

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Virus Ridden

Please be patient with me. I’m having a world of computer problems this week; in fact I’m coming to you live, from the cowboy’s computer because mine is, well, quite ill. Which isn’t good because my life is on that computer. I have so many photos and stories to share, and the rest of the [...]

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Macro Monday

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I know I haven’t participated in ages. Summer has me super busy. But I captured a cute, blue dragonfly at the river the other day. Happy Monday!

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