Pretty Ponies

[dancinghorse]

Because lynnesite said I could. :)

Pretty piccies behind le cut.




Camilla-the-War-Mare: Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!





Our witty photographer titles this one "Our Pooka of the Poop Piles."





Tia showing us a bit of what she'll look like when she's a grown-up Lipizzan.






Tia: OMG TEH CUTE!





The Balanced Trot: Tia shows us how it's done.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Those are sooooooo beautiful.

Last week I took the sixth grade to the annual Medieval Times lunch (they get that as a reward for slogging thru Howard Pyle's Robin Hood, and in preparation for Le Morte d'Arthur). I always love cruising behind the gift shop, where they keep the horses.

[seachanges.livejournal.com]

Wonderful pictures, thanks for sharing. :)

[gracefulshrimp.livejournal.com]

oh my lord, such pretty beasts and Tia. that last picture, oh my oh my

how nice it must be to wake up and see your ponies doing that :)

[smoemeth.livejournal.com]

*dies*

[christymarx.livejournal.com]

NICE piccies.

[shelly-rae.livejournal.com]

That Tia just oozes potential! What sassy feet she has. Wow!
Anon

[rethought.livejournal.com]

Lovely.

Embarrassingly enough, I didn't realize Lipizzans came in any color but white until right now.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Your Pooka of the Poop Piles is missing his horn. What'd you do, digitally erase it so nobody knew the truth? It didn't work. That's obviously a mythical beast there. :)

And that last one of Tia is just goooorgeous. Sassy pony!

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

I believe they start out dark and get their white coats as they grow up!

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

*sits here and reads your icon with fascination* What is that? It's creepy and wonderful.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Though some do come in (and remain) bay. (I don't know anything about 'em except that they exist.)

[plutosonium.livejournal.com]

I must have a thing for war mares. Camilla looks magnificent.

[cyprinella]

Ooooo. *saves for further horsey drawing reference*

[casacorona.livejournal.com]

Lipizzans are mostly gray, which means they start out dark and turn white as they grow up; some faster, some slower. About 1 in 500 or so stays dark -- bay, seal brown, or black. The School always keeps a dark stallion in training, for luck, they say. Charlie Horse Acres in Graham Washington has a gorgeous bay mare. We know that Pooka's sire is heterozygous for gray, meaning that there's a 50-50 chance, when breeding him to a non-gray mare, of getting a non-gray baby. (The graying gene is dominant.)

Tia is a gray; she'll turn white as she matures. You can tell even when they're babies, because the grays have white around their eyes when they're born.

[smoemeth.livejournal.com]

The text is the song "Slumber Queen", by my Supreme Musical Goddess Veda Hille. The music is creepy and wonderful, too. :)

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

My piccies are nowhere as nice. I am, however, going to put them in your hands any year now.

signed, the infinitely lazy

[raithen.livejournal.com]

:D.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Now that is neat. Did the kinds enjoy it?

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Er. Kids. Urg.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

Love Salma as your icon. :)

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

:)

When they have the whees en masse, it's a grand show. Airs everywhere!

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

:) Thanks.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Yep. You can see the silver coming through around the flanks.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Did you draw your icon? It is stunning.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

I'll look forward to them whenever they get here.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

The kids always love Medieval Times. EVery single year, soon's the new sixth grade comes in, their very first question is, "Do we get to go to Medieval Times?"

[cyprinella]

Yep, although the original is not all green, it's oranges and yellows. :) If my site were still hosted, I'd have more stuff to link to than what's in my Zazzle gallery but I was cheap and it appears that they are no longer in the google cache.

[galeni.livejournal.com]

Wow.

I love the pictures on your new website, too.

Just...wow.

[seachanges.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite stage is right in the middle when they look like dappled pewter.

[seachanges.livejournal.com]

Love Salma as your icon. :)

Thanks. I couldn't resist. :)

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Ah. Horse fix.

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