the horse ranch

I've become friends with a woman whose sister manages a Thoroughbred brood mare farm. Seven stallions, about 130 mares so lots of horse sex and lots of babies in the spring. I went out there this afternoon and wandered around taking pics. They're pretty self-explanatory, but here's a quick run down - calf (going to end up in the freezer eventually so they call him Stew), mama cow, Rio the farm dog, lots of baby horse pics, Owl the curly tailed farm cat. So lovely to walk around trailed by the dogs and cat, scattering chickens as we go, stopping to feed carrots here and there, scratch a butt. I came home smiling and smelling like horses.