My new best photo

...and I took it myself, through the living room window! It's a rare shot to get, when a horse is gaping in interest at something but ducks its head down, reaching forward for a moment, as if to get another perspective. All the other shots were neck straight up in the air.

I got some nice photos because the neighbors moved their 10-horse, 1-pony herd to the pasture closest to our house.

I sent this to my photographer friend and her response was, "He seems to want to live with other horses, and not a donkey."

*sigh*

I'm consulting with my husband about the most tactful way to say I'm finished with this topic after 8 years of her pestering me about it. Tact? How relevant is tact in Germany? I heard recently: "You, as an American, will never be capable of being too direct with a German."

     

I put oil on Mag's hooves today for our neighborhood walk. I did it because of Nimo. A horse can be strong and happy one day and in need of release (as they say in German) the next. I cannot believe he's gone. And she'll never have the option of putting oil on his hooves again. His end was almost exactly like Baasha's, and somehow our last photos of our heart horses had rainbows over them.