The Prodigal Stranger

4th June 2019

Breakfast in be—barn

Breakfast duty in the barn is fun! Nowhere else do you get greeted by such an eager, anticipative audience!

Cassie waits politely but don't let her looks fool you. She's a cunning little one, and she'll let you know if she thinks service is not up to standards. — Cassie waits politely but don’t let her looks fool you. She’s a cunning little one, and she’ll let you know if she thinks service is not up to standards.

Emilie doesn't mind where she eats her breakfast as long as she gets to eat it. Groom away. — Emilie doesn’t mind where she eats her breakfast as long as she gets to eat it. Groom away.

Foxi makes eyes at the breakfast cart like only a small pony can.

We didn't feed these guys. That's Blacky's job. But we did feed Blacky, so that surely counts. — We didn’t feed these guys. That’s Blacky’s job. But we did feed Blacky, so that surely counts.

Nando would like to request speedier service, thank you very much.

Olivia seems convinced that she who maketh the funniest face getteth her breakfast first.

A contest which, incidentally, Tush is willing to join.

27th May 201915th June 2019

May sucked but look at those poppies

Let me be honest here: May sucked.

Not Theresa (though my British friends tell me she sucked too). Just the weather. May in Denmark usually has two or three weeks of gloriously hot sunshine during which everything explodes out of the ground in a cornucupia of scent and colour.

Not so this year. It’s been mostly cloudy and rainy. But in between the rain there’s been a few days where the sun came out (and even two that had summer-like temperatures). I managed to grab a few good shots in the garden and elsewhere, without getting drenched.

Without further ado, the pictures of May (such as May was).

The garden

Most of our garden is bee and small animal friendly but that doesn’t mean we don’t have beautiful colours.

Poppies in the front yard — I am in love with the colours of our poppies. Sure, they’re nothing special. Just poppies. But have you looked at that intense flame?

Sage and mint in a blue pot — For a beautiful blue stained cheramic pot, we need something blue. Decorative sage coupled with good old mint will provide aromatherapy all summer—provided that summer ever happens.

Rhododendrons and tulips — Find the pink tulips in a sea of pink rhododendrons.

Early tulips — The first tulips competing with the first bluebells, before the rhododendrons came into bloom.

Bluebells — Okay, now everything is in bloom.

Sage and mint — A close-up of that decorative sage. It smells as good as its colour is intense.

Well. Yeah. It wouldn’t be our garden if there were no dandelions. Dandelions are allowed in our lawn.

the old man on the lawn — The old man prefers to lie in the shade these days. I’ve been trying to get a good picture of him for a long time, and this one does capture his contemplative old man attitude.

Skærup Zoo

There were two warm days, and we made them to the zoo in one. Out of about 1200 pictures a few were worth sharing (I’m still learning this camera).

painted squirrel is curious — This little squirrel was the embodiment of curious. I bet he wishes he had a camera to take pictures of me too.

meerkats — Meerkats do the meerkat thing.

This kookaburra has the perfect expression. I absolutely loved his go-away face. Do not disturb the kookaburra in the sun.

Don’t wake up the goose half of the geese-and-old-farm-implements exhibition, either.

curious george — Curious George is alive and well.

the best employee — This one was my favourite animal though. A park employee turned up early for lunch and took a nap in the sun. Later, he raided every other employee’s lunchpack, then went back to sleep. Talk about having it made.

21st May 2019

Unlucky ponies

Luckiest horse in the barn Emilie ain’t. We had that big laminitis scare in December which turned out to actually have been a massive hoof abscess instead (‘biggest damned thing I’ve seen in a while’, the farrier said). That was good news—she got to lose the mouth guard, and she certainly was not unhappy about that.

Trust Emilie to finally get the vet’s word that she’s fine and promptly get injured again. This time she got into a fight with a gelding in the field (same one she was cheerfully handing out sex ed lessons with two weeks previous) and now she’s got a lame hind leg and severe kick injuries on the front.

Some days I don’t think there will ever be a day when Emilie and I are in good health at the same time.

Oh, the fjord at the top of the page? That’s Loke, one of the resident senior geldings who felt like modelling on a hot spring day.

Emilie and the husband in the arena. — At least one of ’em has great hair.

The husband in the sun. — Too hot to work. Emilie trimmed the arena edges while we just slacked off.

12th March 201911th March 2019

New toys are great!

Getting to know my new camera is great fun! Here’s my best first shots.

Startled kitty is startled! Piv is not convinced that the camera lens can be trusted..

I'm still not trusting that, says Piv. — I’m still not trusting that, says Piv.

There are surprising amounts of water in Spang Å at this time of year. Technically, the river is the part inside the fences. The rest is dry pasture. Technically.

This one is the favourite of the day. I do love my blue glass bottles so when they catch the sunlight.

Begonias like flowers on fire, with blue glass in the background. Fantastic colours!

The resident swans decided to check out what I was doing.

11th March 201911th March 2019

Coffee Buddies

There’s a certain something between the husband and the horse. I feel peaceful just watching him and Emilie like this.

There’s definitely also something to be said for the first real spring day in February. Incidentally, these will be the last pictures posted from my old camera; I may have gone and acquired a new Canon 550D yesterday.

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