The weather has cleared a bit, thankfully, as I don't think I could have taken much more rain. With one mustang moving out this weekend, my boys are now able to share a stall and get out of the mud and onto the pea gravel in the paddocks. Such a relief not to be swamped with mudnure in there this year!

I had a few folks ask me about Darling's sponsorship. This is something that just rather fell out of nowhere for us. The folks at Equiscience had been kind enough to donate a bag of grain to each of the yearlings at YAY, and when I returned home I called in with a report and to thank Ty for helping out. Turns out that while we'd been at the show, he'd been doing some research and said he wanted to help Mustang U with their work, and that Elenbaas, the manufacturer, was willing to sponsor Darling and I with grain (and spiffy new coats) along with providing grain and a percentage of the sales from their Equibalance grain. Now just how cool is that? So I'd encourage anyone in the northwest to go in search of Equibalance in their feed stores. Nutritionally speaking, it's on par with LMF. Good stuff!

The light was beginning to disappear yesterday when I asked Darling to help me out with my 'blur' assignment. I'm not sure that it's quite what I'd hoped, but it'll do. Perhaps if Rocket had been a little closer, or Sandy and Darling a bit further behind? What do you think?

Doesn't Sandy look like a chunk in the photo below? He's not. He's just hairy!

A Photo A Day?

I decided I needed to get more serious about my photos. Some are good, some quite simply should end up in the trash. Thank God for digital or I'd go broke printing wretched photographs.

So to help me get in shape, I signed up on the Equine Photographer's Network, hoping that the upcoming Photo A Day for a Month would offer me an opportunity to discipline myself and work harder at capturing those truly wonderful moments we all share with our horses.

And I was happy.

And then I spotted Joan's post at Mudranch early this morning, mentioning the fact that she'd renewed her membership and was taking part in this 30 day challenge.

And I thought to myself...
uh-oh

Because, you see, I'd forgotten.
I'd forgotten I was going to be disciplined and organized and planned.
Why...I'd only had my camera outside with me for a handful of minutes yesterday!
And what had my lens focused on?
Darling's new coat.



See?
It's her Equiscience coat, part of the sponsorship package
provided by Elenbaas, along with the grain she gets as a sponsored rider.
Cool, eh?

I'd also grabbed a couple of quick shots of Sandy's new bit
so I could show it to you,
but that certainly didn't fit with the theme for the first day, which was
HAIR

What to do?

And things just didn't get any easier.
Today's assignment was environment.
Today was also wet, and what am I to take photos of
out there in the rain?
The only environment I've got is...
well...mud.

That and gravel in my spiffy new paddocks, but was I thinking earlier today when the sun was still up behind those rain clouds?
No. No, I was not.

So not until feeding time, when the day was drawing to a close and the light was fading did I rush in a panic outside to take a halfhearted jab at my assignment.

You know, I seem to recall doing homework in much the same fashion.
But I digress.

I did manage to pull a photo out of the bag, so to speak, for the hair assignment when I realized Sandy's goat beard was quite visible.
And at the same time, I've got a shot of the new bit for y'all to take a gander at!
A twisted wire, broken mouth shanked job that seems to suit him well as he transitions from a snaffle to a more grown up bit.



And as you can see, mud for today' environment shot.

So my first two days are in the bag. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be better about getting my assignment done in a timely manner. The topic is blur.
That ought to be easy, I seem to be a natural at that!