Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Horsing around with my buddy

Neigh
Arva, ON
October 2023
This photo originally shared on Instagram


On a relentlessly grey October afternoon, I stand beside a busy road and watch these two lovelies catch up on their snacking.

By any measure it isn’t a particularly notable moment for any of us - they’re munching on grass and I’m standing around with a camera in my hand - yet for some reason it has continued to stick in my head all these months later.

Maybe it’s the serene simplicity of these gentle giants doing the things that gentle giants do.

Perhaps it’s the way the brown horse stands guard while the black one grazes.

Or could it be the soft curves of the pasture they call home?

Maybe it’s one of those questions of nature destined never to be answered.

Perhaps it’s nature’s way of encouraging us to slow ourselves down and appreciate moments that are all too easily missed as we rush from here to there.

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Related:
Black horse photobomb, November 2023
Lonely, July 2006

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