phone booth
Posted: August 24, 2014 Filed under: horses | Tags: horses, phone calls, wyoming 24 CommentsWhen you’re in a mountain valley with no line of sight to cell towers, how does one make a phone call? Head up to the phone-booth.
Hold my ride while I make this call….
You can ride up on the mountain bike, or take the car, or go natural. But a one horse powered vehicle is a pretty good way to mix technologies.
Here’s hoping you can sometimes un-plug.
blacktooth and pinks – wyoming treasures
Posted: August 17, 2014 Filed under: travel, wyoming | Tags: big horn mountains, blacktooth peak, pinks, wyoming 8 CommentsBack down from the mountain, a couple more images linger. It’s hard to describe the mountain vistas, or the beauty of the flowers and I am loathe to let them go just yet.
Pinks – their local name – seen from horseback
Many mountain flowers are small and subtle, but pinks are small and brilliant
Close up view
As the seasons move toward winter the colors move to brown and grey, here Blacktooth Peak sits atop it’s royal robes.
Blacktooth Peak in the distance
After one last view, it was time to return.
the lead view – horses
Posted: August 6, 2014 Filed under: horses, travel, wyoming | Tags: big horn mountains, horses, the view, travel, wyoming 11 CommentsThey say that the lead view is best, and on a horse I can agree with that.
The horse eye view for Romeo in front – his ears say he’s paying attention
But the view from behind can be pretty good too.
I think Romeo will give me a poor review for letting them cut us off at the pass
It matters where you are.
The Bighorn Mountains, August 2014
May you always take time to see the view.
for those who dream of horses
Posted: August 5, 2014 Filed under: horses | Tags: horses, TP Ranch, wyoming 6 Comments
Waiting to go out to pasture and freedom for the night at TP Ranch
yellowstone – herd
Posted: August 31, 2013 Filed under: travel, yellowstone park | Tags: bison, comfort, herd, peace, travel, wyoming, yellowstone national park 28 CommentsIf there is contentment to be found in moving with the herd then it must be here.
Bison unfenced and free
darkest night
Posted: August 31, 2013 Filed under: travel, wyoming | Tags: awe, big horn mountains, direction, hope, meteor, night sky, travel, wyoming 18 CommentsWhen night is darkest and hope a crutch that others lean upon, cast your eyes up. Often new things are revealed when we least expect them.
the heavens from the Big Horn mountains are wondrous. Photo Jason Stomps, all rights reserved
The night sky outside our cabin in Wyoming. It continually teaches me the meaning of “awe”
May there be wonders in your life.
doers and watchers
Posted: August 20, 2013 Filed under: Devil's Tower, pearls of wisdom, travel, Uncategorized, wyoming | Tags: choosing, climbers, devil's tower, doers, dreamers, prairie dogs, travel, watchers, wyoming 30 CommentsWe stopped at Devil’s Tower on the way home. The extruded magma from a long ago volcano stands a proud challenge to the surroundings, a holy place to the Native Americans, and a Mecca to climbers.
Devil’s Tower in the Distance
My daughter and I scrambled across boulders near the technical climbing area. It was hot tiring work, but nothing like the climbers faced. Afterwards I thought how life divides us into doers and watchers. Can you find the inspiring doers in the picture below?
Can you find the doers in the picture
How about the watcher, another famous feature of Devil’s Tower, can you recognize the Prairie Dog?
A Prairie Dog watches for danger
Life can be tough when you’re little and tasty and there’s eagles and coyotes about.
I think that sometimes we become watchers or doers at the wrong times for improper reasons. There’s a time for both, but if we want to realize our dreams we must ensure that fear doesn’t stop us from doing when the time is right.
May you dare to do.
far off places
Posted: August 16, 2013 Filed under: travel, wyoming | Tags: horses, saddles, toyota sienna, travel, two hundred thousand miles, wyoming 13 CommentsWe have this Toyota van – it’s been alot of places on some tough roads with almost 200,000 miles ( 320,000K )
Van at Park Reservoir in the Big Horn mountains
When it stops we will have had our money’s worth.
The Saddles are clean…
cleaning the saddles
The Riding done…
on the trail with Cookie
the last smiles tucked away…
favorite youngest and her guest from England enjoy Cookie and Blackjack without saddles
then we return and I wonder why I don’t live here and vacation back there…
Yellowstone – travel
Posted: August 14, 2013 Filed under: travel, wyoming, yellowstone park | Tags: beauty, buffalo, geysers, travel, wild animals, wyoming, yellowstone national park 22 CommentsOne of my favorite places of mountains, water, trees and sky. And of course animals, this trip we saw elk, buffalo, a bald eagle, deer, marmots, moose. We took a whirlwind one day visit from our cabin near Sheridan Wyoming.
water and prairie and no fences
Buffalo near the road
geothermic fascinations
Plain and mountain
and geysers
an amazing feat of strength – horses
Posted: June 21, 2013 Filed under: horses, travel, wyoming | Tags: horsemanship, horses, riding, strength, wyoming 21 CommentsIf he rides a Japanese Quarter Horse ( a four wheel ATV ) some now, that’s OK. Read the rest of this entry »
