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One more ride on the Carousel

5/13/2015

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PictureButtermilk: circa 1955
I have been horse crazy since .... well since forever! It all started with a great rocking horse that my father made for me, and continued when I discovered that if I stuck a broom, handle down, into the folded roll-away bed in our basement, I would have almost a full-sized 'horse' to ride on. The covey of kids in our neighborhood used to play cowboys and Indians... I was the horse! As a young teen, I actually got to ride real ones! Until one threw me off (my fault not his) onto a manure spreader and I broke a few bones. My parents weren't too keen when I wanted to get back on after I healed. My family has taken a horse-pack trip into the Rockies - probably my favorite vacation ever. I even past the "cowboy test" (next time we have a beer I will tell you that story!)

The love of all things equine includes carousel horses. They are beauties frozen in time. Yes, some weird carousels have lions and dragons and various other creatures and
some even have (the horror of it all) benches.
Those are fine for others, but for me give me the horse. The one with head bowed just before rearing, or the one with fire in his eyes, the black steed who, I know, comes alive at night, and, now untethered, out runs the rest...

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In downtown Charlottesville, there is a small carousel. No calliope or barker, no lights, just some patient small steeds ready to fulfill a child's dream with a push from a parent or friend.  I have talked to them, and watched them many times, but today I finally found them at rest. Not a child in sight! ALL MINE!!! We communed for a while while they frolicked and posed for me. I took portraits of them...  each in their own private mood.
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And as I and my buddies enjoyed the afternoon, many walked by unknowing the magic of the horses, frozen in time, who are magical and marvelous and come alive when no one is watching.



I am sure of it.
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Jessica Schatz
5/13/2015 02:55:14 pm

Oh, Jill, we are kindred spirits. Beautiful photos, beautiful words. Yesterday, a friend and I took a ride out to our rented garden space. A beautiful, live painted pony was running like the wind in the field next to us. I was dying to photograph it , but my friend was tired, so I didn't. You fill my soul.

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