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Beautiful animal!
posted by
adnohr
on October 28, 2012 at 3:07 AM
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A very nice story. My wife is an animal lover, and gives generously to various pet charities and animal rescue sights. A few years ago, she gave a substantial donation to a ranch in Colorado looking to save some semi-wild horses from being shipped to I believe Canada where they would have been slaughtered for meat. Her donation helped keep the horses on that ranch, and as a thank you, they named one of the horses after her and sent her a pic. She went through a lot of tissues that night! 
posted by
JimmyA
on October 25, 2012 at 1:40 PM
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beautiful country beautiful horse and beautiful story.Thank you dear friend
posted by
Kabu
on October 24, 2012 at 4:10 PM
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Re: Naut, what a pleasure, to go back and read that poem again!
So eloquent, personal, and universal, too. The final stanza gives a true and poignant image.
We owe a great debt to the creatures we involve in solving our human problems and needs.
posted by
Ciel
on October 24, 2012 at 8:39 AM
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Re:BC-A
Couldn't be a better home for her... even if I found a homestead of my own, I don't think I would take her from it.
posted by
Ciel
on October 24, 2012 at 8:36 AM
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Ciel
Beautiful pictures of a beautiful animal! As you probably know, I adore horses, and throughout my adult life I've always had that lurking regret that I can't keep one, never having had a backyard large enough, LOL...
One of your posts a few years ago inspired a little poem I wrote, which you may remember. Here it is again: http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos8866/551958
posted by
Nautikos
on October 24, 2012 at 7:53 AM
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Ciel
vThat looks so nice love. BC-A, Bill’s R®st
posted by
BC-A
on October 24, 2012 at 7:12 AM
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Pat, Sonja is in Garfield, north of Pullman.
I have driven through and flown over the area you describe, though, and it is marvelous from the air! I believe those hills now are the sites of wind farms, which some folk don't care for, but I think they are a marvel to see, with their 70-foot long blades sweeping through the air, and providing a clean alternative to fossil fuels.
posted by
Ciel
on October 24, 2012 at 6:48 AM
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My goodness! Eastern Washington, where I lived as a little kid?
In those days we lived at a fork in the main drag between Kennewick and Richland - an area known as The Y. Rising behind our small neighborhood which roughly flanked the Columbia River, were the long rolling "hills like elephants" known to us as the Horse Heaven hills. Then the land was wild and herds ran free. I belive irrigation and cultivation has changed much of it now. Love seeing your pictures of the hills and especially of your beautiful Sonja. :)
posted by
Pat_B
on October 24, 2012 at 5:44 AM
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