Thursday, March 19, 2015

Doonie Growing Up


Throwback Thursday!
Here is my Dun horse, Doonie, when she first came to be mine, 
one week before her first birthday 


She was about to shed when we got her, our first experience with the color changing gray...
First she darkened to become liver chestnut... Here she is at two or three...


And at five years old...




Starting to really work at six...





At seven Doonie had a run in with a field of Cockleburs that drove her nuts once tangled in her hair.


We twitched her lip to be able to get anywhere near her head... 
For awhile she sported a stylish mohawk...


An old pro at age eight...

 

Loving life at age 10...


Pony Rides in the park in Santa Fe at age 11...
Giving big and little folks a fun ride is a job she loves...


Now my girl is weeks away from giving birth to her first foal, due on her birthday...
And still turning whiter yet with each brushing as she sheds her winter coat... 
In a few years she will have lost all those lovely dapples, freckles and tiger stripes...
A horse of many colors!

 





1 comment:

  1. Now in August I still say my girl is weeks away from foaling... Apparently her first escape was unsuccessful, but the second most certainly must have took. She looks appropriately round these days, her appetite big, her mood variably sweet and grumpy... Ready to meet her foal already and to ride the valleys hills mesas and canyons once again, our hair blowing in the breeze...

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