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OMG. To Die For Human and Horse Tags! She Finally did it! Affordable and Faboo! Sweetbird Studio, I love you!

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

OK, I know I shouldn’t get so excited over a ‘thing’. It doesn’t cure cancer or save all the unlucky horses in the world.

But, it makes me happy and making me happy makes me more tolerable to my horses. So, it kinda works.

Besides, every horse needs some bling to give to its rider to provide divine protection in an amuletpagen sort of way.

I give to you SWEETBIRD STUDIO “Protect this Rider – and the horse she rode in on” tags! Love ‘em!

Click on image to go to site

SWEETBIRD STUDIO ‘PROTECT THIS RIDER’ TAGS

OK, previously, I gave to you a blog on Sweetbird Studio PROTECT THIS HORSE tags which I bought for Finn. I love mine. It is sterling with turquoise.

But, it was slightly out of ‘buy it right now‘ range.

However, today, Sweetbird Studio came up with a way to lessen the cost but still give a great product with her Pewter and smaller turquoise stoned (who cares, right?) Rider tags.

Love them! Only $35!!! (click here)

You could get one for you and one for your friends for Xmas or whatever!

(I am not affiliated and I don’t get any kickbacks, in case you are wondering… although I wish I did! <smile>)

This is mine that I purchased for Finn's saddle. It is the sterling one.

FOR HORSES AND DOGS!

She makes the inexpensive pewter tags for horses and dogs, too!!

Wahoo! Click here to go to the pet section of her site to browse.

This is the wonderful, less expensive, pewter version of my horse tag! Click image to go to pewter horse tags.

Here is the darling dog tag! Click image to go to dogtags.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST…

This is how you order the tag I bought for Finn. You can personalize it. I see that she only has 15 left at this price – probably due to the rising cost of silver… Click here to order one.

Sterling version. This is what I got for Finn. You can personalize it! Click here.

I AM RE-POSTING THIS BECAUSE THE DAY IT RAN, MY SITE WENT DOWN FOR HALF THE DAY AND MANY OF YOU MISSED IT. SO… HERE YOU GO, AGAIN!

FROM AUGUST 4TH.

Yesterday I wrote about how for several reasons (excuses), I quit giving my horses their supplements for the past few months. Because I hadn’t given supplements, Sam’s hooves had degenerated. I stated that I was going to try Omega Alpha’s MINEREQ as a test to see if it rebuilds her hooves.

Well, all of that got me thinking…

THE MYSTERY OF SUPPLEMENTS

Y’know, there a zillions out there. I am always amazed at the pages and pages and pages of supplements in every equine catalog.

How could one possibly understand it all?

Well, you kinda have to be a chemist, really. And, honestly, WHO really reads all the labels and then actually understands how all the compounds work together?

Very few.

I’ve had chemists and nutritionists take me through a lot of this and what they say about some manufacturers would make your blood boil. Did you know that some ingredients won’t digest at all unless there is another specific ingredient to compliment it? Did you know that only certain forms of many ingredients are digestible or strong enough to do any good?

I’m sure we’ve all wasted money on a product that seemed to not make any difference at all – or that the animal wouldn’t eat.

Most of us rely on luck, chance and the success of others when choosing a supplement.

And, sometimes the petri dish is in your own backyard…

EQUION

I started using Equion 20 years ago. I forget who turned me onto it but at that time, I was breeding my mare and needed something to help correct her cycles and get her ready. I was told to purchase Equion.

I did. It came in a no-frills bucket. I used it for all of my horses because it also creates a fine hair coat and strengthens feet as well as balancing hormones. It isn’t specific to mares. Everyone got it.

Over time, the changes were subtle but dramatic. All of them had very solid feet – or as solid as their particular conformation would allow -. All of them were dappled and all of them had fabulous manes and tails.

I actually didn’t notice the changes until I would send a horse into training and the trainer would ask me what I was feeding him because he looked incredible. Wow. Trainers rarely tell a person that their homegrown horse looks fabulous. But, they did.

I would tell them to use Equion.

Great product, no frills...

: No frills, just a bucket of good. Click on image to go to site.

And, I have to say… the past couple of months, I haven’t had any Equion and I really see the lack. Their dappling is almost gone. Their coats don’t look as nice, the mares aren’t as happy and we’ve already seen Sam’s hooves from yesterday.

So, I ordered a huge pail of it today. (Click here to go to their website and learn about Equion.)

While I was on the site, I also saw that they have a 40% OFF (Wahoo!) Special during August on their Hoof Supplement. I’ve never used it but I bought it just because of the sale. I will use it on BG, I think, since I am already using the MINEREQ on Sam.

Anyway, I am endorsing (no affiliation) this product because it has worked for me for years and I know the compounding is correct.

And, the same guy has been in charge of shipping from the website for years and he is really good. He ships on time and always remembers you.

EQUINE CHIA

OK, well, I haven’t been using this for a long time. I’ve used it every day for about 4 months on the ponies. After about one month, I saw a big difference in their topline. Their coats looks shiny and they seemed to be slightly less potbellied and more alert. After the 4th month, I thought they had shaved a few years off of their 20 year old selves.

I wrote about it here.

Anyway, they don’t look as good right now. Their spines are starting to show again and they don’t look as perky and shiny overall. So, I have to say that the Equine Chia was helping them.

Many of you who have tried Equine Chia have written to me to say that it is quite remarkable! So, I think we should all try it and see… It is fairly inexpensive. Click here to review.

I ordered more. I got the bag without the scoop (because I only used half of the scoop on the ponies anyway) and it is a really good deal. Actually, it is all relatively inexpensive.

Here is the link to order it in several sizes.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST, EQUI-SPA’S AUGUST SPECIAL SALE!

Since we are chatting about ordering, I wanted to bring to your attention the Equi-Spa August Special. BUY ONE COOL MUSCLE WASH AT $18.00 and GET THE SECOND ONE 1/2 OFF! STOCK UP… Get Two bottles for $27.00

What is Cool Muscle Wash anyway? I wondered that, too.

My horses are just trail horses so they don’t really work that hard to need a muscle wash… So I asked Equi-Spa why I should use it and she wrote back to me saying that it is a great way to cool yourself and your horse down after a ride.

Really? OK, I’ll try it.

So, I did.

It was 95+ today. I poured a little into my wash bucket and added water. It smelled great! Finn wanted to drink it. Anyway, I got it on my sponge and it rolled down my arm. Usually I hate that. But today, it felt really good! So, I took the sponge and applied it to my neck.

Ahhhhhh. OMG. I was really surprised that this worked so well so fast!

Finn was a bit miffed so I used the rest on him. (Having him cooled down in this way made me feel less guilty about putting him in the trailer for the ride home.)

So, I think it does work in several ways, not just the intended use of a muscle aid.

Here is what the Equi-Spa website says about the Cool Muscle Wash:

Did you know that it is also a fabulous all over cooling body brace in hot weather? Yes! You just add a couple of ounces to a bucket of cool water and sponge on. Helps the horse stop sweating and lowers the body temp faster. I use it on my shoulders when I get sunburned. Takes the burn out! The botanical extracts and essential oils in Cool Muscle Wash soothe and cool inflammed muscles and joints after a ride on a hot summer day right out of the bottle too. Just spray on and brush in.

•   I use it before a ride sprayed on large muscles to enhance and allow for more range of motion.
•   It also works well with Peppermint summer Protection to keep the flies and mosquitoes away while you ride.
•   Some massage therapists who use this on their human clients to help relieve and relax pain and inflammation .
•   shortens cool down time used after a work out
•   Minty fresh aroma
•   Safe and non toxic botanical ingredients including Witch Hazel, known as a powerful anti-inflammatory agent for centuries

If you’d like to order it, you can click here! There is a lot of wonderful stuff on her website. I love the Peppermint Summer Protection Spray (fly spray that I use on myself…) and THE BALM (cannot say enough about this – I use it on everything practically).

Also, I should mention that I put the Equi-Spa Show Thyme drops into Norma’s grazing muzzle. It helps her. She also likes me to use the Equi-Spa Lavender Cleansing Spray in there, too. For some reason, she prefers the fragrances of the Show Thyme and the Lavender instead of the nasty plasticy rubber muzzle. Go figure!

If she is gonna make me wear this, it better smell good.

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DANA FEAGIN, Animal Portrait Artist with a heart of gold for our furry friends.

Saturday, August 6th, 2011

After you read this post, you are going to wonder where the ‘horse’ is in it… Well, I swear to you that the artist, Dana Feagin, had a horse portrait in the gallery…

In fact, it was that same horse portrait that got me to visit Sanctuary One (where I took a photo of the actual horse in the painting). But, in my excitement, I didn’t take a photo of the horse painting.

What is really interesting is that I have spent the last 45 mins searching high and low on every site, FB page and artist community trying to find that horse painting by Dana Feagin… I guess she doesn’t like it much – or it was an Original and even she forgot to take a photo of it – because it is NO WHERE.

So, you will just have to take my word for it… she does horses, too. <smile>

These are two of the cards that I purchased from the Gallery in Ashland. The artist is Dana Feagin. I like that she actually applies the prints to the paper via those old style photo corners... Nice!

HOW IT ALL STARTED

Well, we were on a family vacation a few weeks ago. The entire family decided to walk 11 abreast through the streets of Ashland, Oregon. I think I mentioned this in an earlier post…

Anyway, my idea of a gracious way to unglop ourselves from the unruly mass we had become was to enter a multi-level, narrow and difficult to navigate art gallery. Since I love artist cooperative galleries anyway (where the artists rent a space and show their stuff), I jumped at the opportunity to browse independent of the entourage.

OMG! There was so much interesting and wonderful work, I wanted to spend all my hay money! I even found a quilt I liked and I’m not that much into quilts…

Since I was being fiscally responsible in front of my husband’s family, I decided to only purchase the above cards which I found in this tiny corner of the Gallery.

Cheapo me buys the cards instead of originals or prints.

THE ARTIST

I didn’t know anything about the artist but her name was on the back of each card so I looked her up once I returned to our home away from home.

Evidently, Dana Feagin had a corporate job in San Diego until 2006 when she and her husband flew the coop and migrated to Southern Oregon.

Since then, she has been painting portraits of animal on commission or just for fun.

Cool, eh?

The artist and her dog.

I think she really captures the personality of her subjects…

Here is her website if you’d like to learn more or ask about a commission.

I also found her Facebook page while I was searching for that horse portrait. (If you contact her, ask her where in the heck she stores that horse painting?!)

Her portrait of her own dog...

This made me smile.

Great Expression!

BROCHURE

Anyway, while I was in her booth of animal portraits, I picked up a brochure for Sanctuary One. (It had a photo of the horse on it that Dana had painted.)

I figured there had to be a connection but I didn’t know what. I mean, of course the Sanctuary rescues animals and she paints animals, but I didn’t get the relationship until I actually went to the Sanctuary…

SANCTUARY ONE

Hubby and the Kids and I had time to kill on our way home from Oregon. No one knew how to fill the time so I pulled out the little brochure for Sanctuary One that I had gathered from Dana’s Gallery booth and piped up, “Let’s go here!”

So we did.

I’m going to write an entire blog about Sanctuary One because it is a wonderful model of how humans and animals can live harmoniously and leave a very small footprint on the planet. They also run a brilliant programs where injured humans can mingle with the injured animals and all heal together. Nice.

But getting back to the story…

We drove there.

This is the horse who greeted us as we arrived. He is also the horse she painted in the mystery painting that I never saw again. Anyway, he is near 40 years-old and a rescue. Handsome older gent. Looks good.

THE PIG, GOAT, COW AND DUCK

I was not the sharpest tool in the box on that day.

You see, I walked into the Sanctuary One office and saw original animal portraits by Dana Feagin on their walls. Hmmmm. You’d think I would have picked up the clue. But, I didn’t.

It wasn’t until we were halfway through the tour did I realize that the very pig, goat, cow and duck (among others) that I had just met were the same pig and goat and cow and duck from the gallery images.

Duh.

Finally, the lightbulb clicked on.

This is the porcine from the painting! She was a fabulous, huge, friendly girl who came out to greet us. I loved her!

This is the portrait of the duck we met!

The famous duck is the one on the right. He didn't stop to meet us. He just walked past with his ladies.

This same cow was keeping her distance about 100 feet from the white cow I was petting.

Here I am with a very sweet rescued "education" cow who worked at a vet school for a while (her breed is evidently rare and French...). Her friend (the black and white cow featured in many of Dana's paintings), is her best friend but she wouldn't come near me. She is far away in the pasture but I can see her...

GOOD CAUSE

Not only does Dana Feagin do commission work, she also paints the animals of the Sanctuary to garner donations for them. And, on top of that, she volunteers there as well. Yup, she rolls up her sleeves and gets animal dirty.

No wonder there were original paintings on the wall of the Sanctuary…

Sheesh. Sometimes I’m as dull as dirt.

Dana's work on a gallery wall

STEP BY STEP

I thought this was a fun depiction of how one of her paintings was created. I found this on her Facebook page.

Photograph

Step 1

Step 2

Final

HUBBY AND THE GOAT

Hubby loves goats. He would like a goat but he doesn’t really want any more animals so he always says he wants a goat and then when I threaten to rescue one, he makes me promise that I won’t bring one home.

Still, when I see goat and boy bonding like this… well, I think about selective forgetfulness, for sure. If our vacationmobile wasn’t packed to the gills, I might have thrown this little goat in the backseat with our daughters… Wally World here we come!!

(Thanks for strolling through this vacation adventure with me!)

Hubby and his new best friend...

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Bombshell Betty Leather Cuffs!

Monday, July 25th, 2011

I’m going to go totally in a different direction today…

JEWELRY!

Well, Cowboy jewelry, kinda.

Fun, handmade by a local artist, easy to wear, hip (American Idol people have wore them this year…) and my favorite descriptor, AFFORDABLE! (cost between $28 – $38 plus shipping)

An assortment of cuffs from her booth... The bees were swarming!

HOW DID I FIND THEM?

As you all know, I dragged Hubby to the Western States Horse Expo this year because it was right around my birthday.

He told me that he would “pick up something” for me at the Expo for my birthday. Well… everything I wanted was going to put him in a very bad mood. So, I decided to get a few smaller things to make the pinch less ouchy.

As we walked around, out of the corner of my eye, I saw the kind of booth that just grabs me. Wood, Old Cowboy stuff, leather and shiny parts.

I ran over there.

As I approached, I heard the angels singing.

My nose was bombarded with scent de leather and copper. Yum!

I set up this photo from behind her counter... An old belt, a few leather choices, a few copper plates and Voila!

BOMBSHELL BETTY

OK, well, her name is really Jodi but she calls herself “Bombshell Betty” and she dresses like a woman straight out of a Rosie the Riveter poster. She isn’t cowboy at all – she just works in cowboy materials.

She created laptop bags and purses and rings and necklaces… and leather cuffs. OMG. People were swarming all around the leather cuffs.

I wish I had taken a photo of her booth. She was like honey and we were like swarming, buzzing, pissy bees.

“Ohh, I like that one. Gimme!”

“Hey, I saw that first… that looks bad on you, it is more my color… dibs!”

You know the drill…

I sat around for a while, waiting for the hive to clear, but it didn’t. So, I walked away.

She had lots of wonderful things for sale but I focused on the cuffs...

COULDN’T GET THEM OUT OF MY MIND

I just couldn’t get those cuffs out of my mind. So, I went back. And, to my surprise, there was no one there! I grabbed the opportunity and started a conversation with BettyJodi.

She told me that the cuffs were selling like hotcakes. (duh) I asked her how she made them and she told me that she gets old leather belts from swap shops and flea markets. She cuts them down and embellishes them with unique finds from antique stores like railroad locker numbers and opera chair seat numbers and old medical file drawer numbers – whatever metal piece she can find.

Or, she will pound letters into copper to say whatever she wants.

I was smitten.

Another lady showed up, a nice lady, and we pawed through the pile of cuffs together – both ahhhing and ooohhhing over the other’s choices. (This probably worked because we had totally different coloring and tastes…).

I ended up with 2 cuffs. One black and one brown. I cannot remember the origin of the very special metal piece on the black one. Bettyjodi told me, and I forgot. I have an email into her to ask again.

Anyway, I was happy…

These are the two I purchased for myself. (That is Hubby's kitty helping me...he doesn't like to model.)

UNTIL….

Until I dropped my new iPhone about 20 times while I was searching through the cuffs.

Out of instinct, I grabbed one of the holster shaped purses she had there and put my phone inside of it.

It fit.

Uh oh. I had to have one.

Bettyjodi was surprised at my application but thrilled to design a new pouch/holster for my phone.

She unrolled several pieces of scrapish leather and let me choose. I was tittering with excitement! I chose a distressed pattern and turned it on the wrong side.

Me: (pointing to my new pouch material) “I’ll take this!”

Bettyjodi: “Uh, Dawn, that is inside out…”

Me: “Yes! I am the master of my own destiny and I choose inside-out!”

Bettyjodi: (trying not to sour the sale…) “Awwlrighty!”

She asked what decorations I wanted and I told her to just do what she does best and surprise me. She said she would add a long strap so I could wear it like a bolero. Or, hands free.

Yippeee! I left to wander about while the master created!

MY PHONE HOLSTER – LITERALLY!

I came back and my holster was ready! I loved it!

Hubby thought the material was inside-out but also thought better about saying anything.

I was thrilled! She has used another very rare silver piece (which I forgot the genesis – again!) as well as a stirrup keeper! (She knew I rode horses…)

I wore my phone holster with pride.

And, I continue to wear it. I wore it throughout my helljob and that phonekeeper was just about the only thing around me that made me smile.

I love my little holster. I especially like the quick-draw feature. ;) (Hubby paid for this… I don’t know the cost but he wasn’t upset so it must have been a deal!)

My inside-out phone holster! Everyone asks where I got it! (That is my phone inside.)

ONE OF A KIND

As I was pulling myself away from the booth, I realized that Betty could inscribe anything onto one of those little, blank copper plates she keeps behind her booth.

Hmmmm. The idea was brewing…

“Ummmm, Bettyjodi?”

Uh huh.

“Could you make a ‘made to order’ cuff for me?”

Sure!

She said to just pick out a piece of belt and she would make whatever I wanted.

So, I did. (Big smile)

My special cuff! I'm wondering if I should have her make more... Would any of you want one?

CONTACT BETTYJODI AND SEE WHAT SHE HAS – OR MAKE YOUR OWN!

If you want to contact Bombshell Betty (jodi@bombshellbettyshop.com), she will send you pics of the cuffs she has. Or, she will send you pics of the belt pieces she has and you can design your own.

They come in a cute little milk carton, wrapped in a popcorn bag. The woman is a genius… There IS a re-use for everything!

My special cuff came inside a popcorn bag inside a milk carton!

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A Small World Story… Ali Bannister, artist.

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

This kind of stuff just makes me smile…

Last week I wrote about the movie, WAR HORSE. (Blogpost linked here)

In that story, I posted a still I grabbed from the trailer. (Me being the art lover, of course I chose a shot with artwork…)

Anyway, that still is the center of the ‘small world’ story.

Here is the image that I grabbed:

The artist saw her work on my blog!

COMMENT

As you all know, anyone can comment at the end of any of my blogposts.

On the day of my WAR HORSE blogpost I received a comment from Ali Bannister. It said,

“Those are my drawings in the skecthbook! Thank you for choosing to feature them here. That has made my day. It was a great film to work on. I can’t wait to see the end result.”

Click to go to her website

HOW FUN IS THAT?!

OK, well!… let the games begin! This woman was the artist for the movie?!

I had to write to her.

So, I did.

She wrote back and told me that not only was she the one who drew the drawing featured in the movie, she also was hired on as Make-up and Hair for the horses.

OMG. It is getting better!

An original of Pride.

So, of course I emailed her back and asked too many questions as I can be very excitable for sure! <smile>

I wanted to know all about the different horses used as the one principle horse. I wanted to know how the horses differed in personality and talent. I wanted to know how they maintained continuity with all the different colored horses used as the same horse- the horses were all dyed and all were given the same kite shaped star.

I wanted to know what it was like to be the on-set hairdresser to horses! Such pressure!

Anyway, I am sure she will respond when she gets a minute.

In the meantime, I went to her website.

Wow.

Ali's art...

ALI BANNISTER’S ART.

She works in pastel, pencil and charcoal.

My favs.

And, she will do commissions from photographs. I looked at her prices and even with the exchange rate (she lives in the UK), her prices were very reasonable.

Animals, kids and wildlife. Nice.

EXAMPLES IN PASTEL

Lily

Love this!

Such personality!

PENCIL AND CHARCOAL

Attention to detail...

GREAT FACE!

SAM

IN CONCLUSION

I will tell you more whenever I hear from Ali about her very exciting and entertaining work on WAR HORSE.

For now, check out her website and maybe send her a photo of your loved one…

What a great find, eh? And, what a small world this Internet has created.

Love it!

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Itsuko. Click here to help her.

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Heather Jansch. A Whole Other Meaning to Driftwood Art…!

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

I seem to be on an artist run here… I keep finding delicious work to post. How could I not show this? Is this not the most wonderful way to re-use driftwood? OMG.

This is the work of UK artist, Heather Jansch.

First of all, bummer that she lives so far away… Bummer that we all cannot have these in your front yards (or backyards). Bummer that we can’t take a bunch of sticks and do this.

As an aside, when I had my gallery, I remember people would grab some wonderful piece put together by some ingenious artist and the customer would say, “My Grandkid made something just like this…” Uh-huh. Yup, we’ve all made driftwood something or others. We’ve maybe even put rocks in a pattern that resembled something else in nature. But, I’m fairly certain that not many people can see the artform in a pile of shore sticks… Hats off, Heather!

What also struck me about Heather, besides the WOW of the art, was her website.

Bronze

If you go there, and please do, you will get a sense of true “its all about the art”. She shows you where she works and invites you into her home. She doesn’t boast that some pieces have ended up in extraordinary places.

Poseidon

You don’t feel like she isn’t touchable. In fact, you feel really peaceful. One after another, the photos of the pieces just keep on keeping on and you feel a constant state of WOW. Woweey. Wowsa. And another? Wowww. I mean, how do you create expression without eyes? How do you evoke emotion with sticks? No paint, no face, no nothin’. Just driftwood.

I thought her Q and A page was rather sweet. Instead of saying, “Oy. I’m so sick of people asking me that…” she just lists the top question and answers. Of course, I wanted to know the same things as everyone else — and probably you — so I’ll tell you what I garnered from my expedition to her website.

First of all, the sculptures don’t stand by themselves. What I mean is, she doesn’t weave the driftwood into itself so that it all just stays there and supports itself (which is what I thought…). There are frames hidden inside. These frames allow Heather to apply the wood, stand back, and then see if this piece of wood is right for that application. Once the piece feels right, she uses screws to secure the wood to the frame. Then, the screw heads are covered up with filler and stain.

Next I learned that she tries to recycle copper for the hooves. If that doesn’t work, she does use lead. Oh, and she tries to use as much recycled everything as possible. Let’s see… oh yeah, she doesn’t just do horses and she will do commissions. And, yes, she loves what she does…

If you are a table top book person, Heather has a table top book for you! Actually, I don’t have enough table tops to accommodate all of my table top books. They tend to stack in my tiny house. Anyway, wouldn’t it be lovely and quite the conversation starter, to have this book on your coffee table? Or, bring it to a shower or a party or whatever. I’m sure the artsy crowd would love this! Here is a link to her book.

But, the most endearing quality, to me, was the job posting she attached to her website. Heather is looking for a sculptor’s assistant. HOW FUN WOULD THAT BE?! You have to be able to use power tools, chainsaws and not be afraid of ladders, but other than that, how cool! So, if you know of anyone who might fill the bill, go to the website and look under ‘opportunities’.

I’ve attached several photos here. Some are very large pieces and some are smaller. But, you really cannot decipher which is which since there are no oranges or Buicks in the frames for reference (thank goodness!).

I’ve also added a shot that is a bronze work. Oh, I simply love bronze and this is no exception. You can still feel the open nature of the ocean yet you also feel the weight of the bronze countered with the weightlessness of the driftwood. mmmmmmm…

I also loved Poseidon. Not just because he is a scrumptious and robust bronze but because of the name… I wrote a while back that evidently the god, Poseidon, created the first horse to impress his girlfriend. Not many people know this since Poseidon is generally associated with water. But, if you can believe the Greeks, Old Posei created the equine out of desperate love. So, I quite admire that Heather named one of her creations after this myth.

Thank you for letting me stroll down artist lane again this month. I seem to be doing that a lot. I hope you enjoy these images at least half as much as I did and hopefully, more!

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