Our Spring issue of The Midwest Equestrian horse magazine is out and about. It seems yellow is the color of choice this season!

The Magazine is at Most Feed and The Riding Store, so far……

Spring is always associated with new beginnings, birth, and re-birth. From baby calves to tiny kittens, we are filled with fresh sights and aromatic smells. It is a time like this that makes me reflect more on the wonders of nature. Sometimes I feel like an outlier in all of this beauty. I want to blend into the landscape like the birds and the bees, bumble and all.

And I am going to make that happen. We planted 25 (actually 24, one blew away) plants from the Boone County Soil and Conservation District, as we begin to make the property more like a Prairie than a property. A land that the horses can walk through and munch a bit here and there, while the birds swirl around them and grab a fly or two.

Here are a few pictures, just after the planting.

Notice the use of our mulch – aka manure!

The blue color of a cloudy, snow day in the Midwest never ceases to enchant me.

The scene is always a bit surreal and eerily peaceful. It is simplistic, yet complex; a lone horse (or group of horses) contently existing amongst the various elements of nature.

Here is Ruby set in her pasture. The color is naturally blue and I prefer to capture images in the color that is reflected from nature. But some people like it a bit warmer or even prefer the color to be captured in neutral color temperature thereby showing the “true” color.

What do you think?