Horsie Saturday visits the present and the past.

[George McGovern]

12. Oh Bayard, Charlie Brown was the best, smartest, friendliest, laid-back-mostest

horse I've ever met. In tribute I created an Album for him on my Flickr site.

It's not a matter of whom I want to ride — I don't want to. At all. Years and years ago, early on in our marriage Laurie let me ride one of her two geldings. He and I were in front of Laurie and hers on a straight ahead path. I knew very little about what I was doing and somehow the horse got it into his head to break into a trot then a canter on into a gallop. At first I felt a thrill which dropped into worry. Prior to panic I managed to get him way back down to a walk. Said to myself "Okay. No more."

When we had the old farm I was much more comfortable photographing horses from the ground. And that worked out well enough.

Horses will slip into your heart. Gotta miss 'em.