On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > On Jul 18, 2010, at 9:35 AM, David J Brooks wrote: > >> http://www.caughtinmotion.com/2010-plowing/album/index.html >> >> About 280 photos for those that want to wade through them. I culled about >> 100. > > Thanks for sharing these, David. Are all these folks hobbyists, or are any of > them actually farming, in whole or part, with horses?
Thanks for the comments Eric. Yes all of the participants are full time farmers. Some of these guys are in there 90's and still handle horse etc. They make me feel like a wimp.:-) Dave > > I sense from these photos that the horses were participants in this event, in > a sense similar to which the humans were. Most definitely not just mindless > machines. They look proud, even haughty. > > One of the most beautiful books I ever read, Adam's Task: Calling Animals by > Name, about certain animals -- dogs, cats, horses, elephants, camels -- but > not others -- monkeys, chimpanzees, apes -- as part of the human community. > The author, Vicki Hearne, is an animal trainer and poet -- and married, or > was at the time the book was published, to a photographer. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > eew...@bellsouth.net > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
