What does the horse of Alexander the Great, Bucephalus, have to do with this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge? The challenge from Patti is Light and Shadow. Here is the reason it is relevant to this famous horse. Alexander the Great managed to tame the Thessalian horse.No one else had been able to do this….
Category: The Monday Minstrel
Monday Minstrel: The horse in 17,000 BC
There is and overriding sense of forward propulsion see in the procession of fine horses on the south wall of the Axial Gallery deep in the caves of Lascaux.These horses are going somewhere, heading purposefully round the smooth curve of the wall. Their prehistoric artist, working to the flickering light of a fat-burning lamp, used…
Monday Minstrel: Daylight Saving?
They didn’t know it was an hour ahead, nor did they care!
Monday Minstrel: The horses of the Camargue.
This post is a copy of an article from the FEI.org ‘Editors Pick for January’ online magazine. It is written by Patricia Salem. Patricia Salem(Patricia is a former professional equine massage therapist and recreational rider. ) We take a closer look at this stunning horse… A trip to Southern France wouldn’t be complete for equestrians…
Monday Minstrel: Patient Bird
I was sitting in my car, eating a take-out sandwich, and I had the window down. I could hear all the birds singing and chattering. Then I noticed this little bird. He was on top of a hedge and let out the occasional chirp to let me know he was there. He knew I had…
Monday Minstrel: The Warhorse of Medieval times was a pony!
Back in the pre-pandemic days, when we were still travelling my husband and I did a tour of arms and armories in England. There were several horses in armour to be seen and it was clear the horses were not huge. So when I recently saw an article in Heels Down online magazine I thought…
Monday Minstrel: Trigger and Roy Rogers.
When I was a kid Roy Rogers and his horse Trigger were my favourites. I used to watch them on tv . Trigger made his name in films in the 1940s and 1950s and later several TV series with his owner Roy Rogers. Trigger learned more than a hundred cues for assorted tricks and could…
Monday Minstrel: The horse and the snake!
The zodiacal animals raced across a river….
Monday Minstrel: What do I spy?
But wait…something caught my eye….
Monday Minstrel: Facts about the London ‘Cab’
The London cab driver will know 25,000 streets and 20,000 places of interest without GPS!
Monday Minstrel: Poem by Anna Blake
Such an arc to his stride, soft rhythm as his hooves cut the arena sand. Sit tall, rider, with balance and broad shoulders. Fill your lungs and share his pride. And then just ask for a little more. Too much and he’ll lurch on tense muscles. Ask with the quiet belief that when he feels…
Have you read Black Beauty?
Kathleen Walker-Meikle’s book, The Horse Book, has some background on the well known book Black Beauty. I loved this book as a child and thought I could share what she says about it here. The novel Black Beauty was written by Ana Sewell ‘to induce kindness , sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses’. Sewell,…
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