Action Shots

Hmm, I seem to have lots of pictures of Chance and very few of Natty… He’s much more active, so I tend to take more pictures of him. My pictures of Natty always show her either grazing or following me around. These are more exciting, although a little blurry because that Chance is just a perpetual motion machine. Enjoy

Wowza, isn’t he gorgeous??? And huge and powerful looking too?

When did Chance get so much bigger than Natty, you ask? He didn’t – he’s just very far off the ground in this picture!

Trying to get a picture of Chance’s beautiful face is a challenge – he closes his eyes, makes funny faces, puts his ears back…

And this one is from last week when they were waiting for me at the gate when I drove up – too cute!

Chancey Chameleon Again!

Big boy is getting his dark winter coat now, so he has lost his blond shoulder patch and there is what looks to be black showing up in all his reds. Plus, his dorsal stripe is back a bit. Here are tonight’s pictures:

And here’s all 5′10″ of me barely peering over the big ol’ butt of my yearling…

All this affection is exhausting!

My sweet angel coming for her turn:

The property where Natty and Chance live is rectangular, and their barn is in the back corner. They have a winter pasture next to that, and then the big summer pasture stretches all the way to the road. This evening, they were hanging in their winter pasture ready to go inside for dinner, and I walked down the driveway to the apple tree at the front entrance of the property. I picked up a few apples, turned and whistled for the horses. They came flying across the entire length of the pasture – Chance is fast! and Natty, well, she’s a big girl, and she can still move out but isn’t what I’d call light on her feet. They were so beautiful to watch. I’m going to try it again tomorrow and take my camera with me. They ran back up to the barn, too, with a little kicking along the way. Chance does this little bouncy stop like PePe Le Pew the cartoon skunk – legs straight and all the feet hitting the ground together and then UP! bounces the horse. Too cute, and I need pictures of that, too. I was so proud of them for coming when I whistled They are such great horses.

Chance’s New Friends

Chance really likes these little goats. He keeps trotting up to the fence wanting to play with them, but they don’t pay much attention to him. They watch my dog more carefully than they watch Chance, but they don’t seem afraid of either horse or dog. I’m glad Chance is being exposed to lots of other animals in his young and impressionable time!