Postindustrial Horsemanship
Once I moved about like the wind; now I surrender. Geronimo
Great ride! George H.W. Bush, stepping down from office, January 21, 1993
and so from misfortune and dominion, this
throne set forth through the meadowlands.
Pablo Neruda, Saddelry
Slideshows are meant to be viewed in FullScreen mode; hit F11. All pictures taken on or next to a horse. Point and click at smaller pictures to see bigger version.
Videos:
●Wild horses in Kilpecker Valley, Wyoming,
run by Jean and disappear in the distance.
●Wyoming wild horses passing by detour over
to check me and Grandiosa out.
●Indian Marwari
horse moving out in Rajhastan.
●Evidently how they
train the Marwaris.
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Pictures and stories:
Trotting in Transylvania, April 2011. Riding through villages with no pavement, and pictures of horses in Romania.
Tips and Tricks: last updated Feb. 12, 2011.
The Rajasthan Marwari horse fair,
November 2010:
Why Marwaris
the Prince of Jodhpur
vehicular chaos
fear and reincarnation
sitting [under] the trot
overseeing the peasantry
untouchable pooper scooper
stills and videos
Along the border from the Pacific to Calexico, summer 2010.
Horse images from Israel, 2008: ancient, Bedouin, and miscellaneous.
Wyoming 2008: high and cool ... the dope ... wild horses ... horse tales ... mathematically perfect in all directions. Wyoming 2008 slideshow; videos.
July-August 2008 horsenews: Los Banos a tale of two playdays best ride of the summer an insight. July-August 2008 slideshow.
May & June horsenews: too ugly for keep off signs horsewomen of Santa Cruz a pointless obstacle. May-June 2008 slideshow
March & April 2008 horsenews: 9.89 mph 13.25 mpg shopping for a horse misjudged ... March-April 2008 slideshow (including a new all-time favorite picture).
February 2008 horsenews: I love that fucking horse ... the tempest ... the rub ... the stables of Lord Percy, Fifth Earl of Northumberland, 1512. February 2008 slideshow.
January 2008 horsenews: Damsel in distress doggone Purgatorio. January 2008 slideshow.
December horsenews: The kindness of strangers: Welcome winter shooting guns from horseback too steep or not too steep gourmet picnicking December 2007 slideshow.
Christmas 2007 slideshow: the desert near Needles, California.
November 2007 peace and quiet: 2nd best horse book ... decrankification .. new Pt. Reyes trail ... symmetry. November 2007 slideshow.
October 2007 Recoveries: Scorched earth love not war a movie review the Santa Anas lost enough. October 2007 slideshow.
September 2007 Nueva Mexico. Give me three steps, mister ... big stink ... un rodeo Mexicano ... el dia de los muertos ... a new way of walkin ... a pain in the ass ... a remarkable reversal. September 2007 slideshow.
August 2007 Mostly in the Yolo Bypass of the Sacramento River. A goatherd ... wallowing monsters ... Claude like clowd ... muskrats ... the long way 'round ... the horsiest movie ... book review. August 2007 Slideshow
July 2007 A ride. Cache Creek ... adaptation ... extreme trials ... princess's pique ... shaking, apples and shit.
June 2007 story: Greener Grass. June 2007 slideshow.
May 2007story: Modesto. May 2007 slideshow.
April 2007: Hey! & Earth Day.
December 2006: Christmas in the desert
November 2006: Louisiana. A week of ridecamping, mostly in the swamps but also among the denizens of the deep south.
August 2006: Comeuppances. In which our hero raises eyebrows, and also gets a bit of his own back.
July 2006: mostly Stockton.
A picture album of some of my favorites (86, actually).
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