Awareness of the outside world. “Their bond was so strong that the former presidents asked each other to speak at their funerals. Carter fulfilled that promise in Grand Rapids in 2007.” Fox17: Jimmy Carter & Gerald Ford’s connection lasting through life and death, Witkos, Dec 29, 2024. The Sun: Ford, Mondale’s Sons Will Read Eulogies Their Fathers Wrote for Carter Before Their Own Deaths, Rice, Dec. 30, 2024, Updated: Dec. 31, 2024. For The Sun, you have to enter an email to read the rest of the article, which I dd not do. Enough info to get the idea from the headline & before the jump.
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As of 31 Dec 2024, generated by Top Nine for my blog’s Instagram account, @virtual_brush_box. Image is a screenshot. #topnine
Photo Subjects
Four Horses
Optimus – five photos
Rodney – one photo, shoulder in shadow photo
Andre & Bubba – one photo
Shows & Showing
Ribbons – five photos
Shows – four photos
Locations
banquet, show, show
home, show, Stepping Stone Farm
SSF show, SSF, banquet
Misc
Cart – four photos. Note in the cart lesson photo (bottom middle) I am wearing my fancy riding shirt. [OOTD, Selfie Photography]
Significantly, seven of the photos are not mine because eight of the photos are of me, or part of me. Foot in the center photo, shadow in the center left photo. Why did these photos rate higher than the rest of the photos I posted? Shows are special occasions? Friends waving hello? Instagram prefers humans? No idea.
Stats
155 photos for the year.
Posts
I use the Instagram account to put up notices of new blog posts. Therefore all of these photos appeared both over on Instagram and on a post here.
Top Row, L to R
[Celebrating The Series, AWTA 2023-2024 Banquet] March
[A Last Look Back at 2023, Driving] January
[Soloing In A Crowd, Show Report, ASHAA Summer Fun Show #4] September
Middle Row
[Saddles!] February
[Finishing The Series, Show Report AWTA 2023-2024 #3] February
[A & B & Me, Show Report, Alabama State Games] June
Bottom Row
[Hey Kids, Let’s Put On A Show, ASHAA Fun Show] May
[Other Barns] April
[Achievement Unlocked, ASHAA Banquet for the 2023 Show Year] January
Coda
I could have put this with the photography recap last week, had I remembered that Top Nine exists. OTOH, not unhappy that I can stretch the photo retrospective over a second post. More about this on Saturday. [Photos of 2024]
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 
Looks like you had a pretty good year! Love that crazy hat.
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I need to do a post on the making of crazy hat.
Top, center photo of the nine: even in my favorite childhood horse book, photos depicting horses in harness in stadiums are tipped with the horses head higher than reality. I don’t even have to go look it up because it’s still vidid in my memory. Why is that?
Sorry, I forgot to log in. It’s Jan in Oregon.
Saddle seat photos used to be slanted. I assume to show off the horse. A lot of modern show photographers dont. Looks like Terry Young still does.