Fall is here

The weather is changing, and so is Lightning’s coloring. I’m really enjoying watching this boy move through his various coats of many colors. This week he’s a wonderful unusual leopard-looking colt.

Here’s a detail shot of his reverse dapples and dorsal stripe:

Here’s one of the horses ready for their next adventure:

Here are pictures from a recent trail ride in a nearby state park. This is Peanut, a 2-year-old QH. Now that we have the bigger horse trailer, he can come with us on our adventures. He’s a good boy

Chance and I usually bring up the rear because Chance doesn’t have shoes and picks his way carefully along gravel paths.

I brought Chance’s lead rope along again because there was a Civil War reenactment happening in the park, and I wasn’t sure if he’d be bothered by artillery fire and horses running around and things of that nature. I should have known better – Chance wasn’t worried a bit!

I hear many horses are afraid of bridges, but none of ours mind this one in the slightest:

The trail makes a loop through the park and there is a grassy arena in a big field near the trailer parking area.

Chance has a fancier trot than I realized!

Look at that reach!

All of the horses who carried riders think they worked hard… Peanut isn’t tired, though.

We went to Gaming Night again last Monday, but I don’t have any pictures. Chance was awesome, and strangers were actually taking his picture, lol

Thursday we had probably the last after-work trail ride of the season. The weather was awesome. It’s getting dark earlier now, though, and we made our way back in the dark – and I do mean DARK! There’s one stretch that is a tunnel under overgrown trees and blackberries, and it was so dark I couldn’t even see Chance’s head. I just hunkered down as close as I could to his neck and trusted him to get me home, which he did. He’s such an awesome horse! He does have something to work on now, though – he kicked the horse behind him, the brat! It’s a good thing we usually bring up the rear.

Here are some detail shots of the ever-changing Lightning Bug.

Here’s Maggie for comparison:

Here is Maggie’s ear – you can see she’s more red and less grey:

Here’s Miss Bonny telling Lightning Bug to step back and let her have ALL the attention!

Notice how big Lightning Bug in this picture – he’s standing in front of Niki, the only full-draft in the herd, and she’s actually on the up-hill side of him. Yikes!

Here’s the herd helping me pick up fallen apples:

I just love this little guy’s pattern

Miss filly is too much an attention hog to make for good pictures

And last but not least, here are my beautiful fatties!

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