Virtual Brush Box

Notes from North Georgia, Milton

Home Team, Combined Driving Another trip on the rattly box. Another home away from home. (Gainesville GA, ed.) Trailers is scary. Not mine. Mine is fine. Other trailers, with other horses on them. Motorcycles is scary. Don’t like loud vroomy noises. Other horses is scary. Sometimes. Other times, I look at them and laugh. WhyContinue reading “Notes from North Georgia, Milton”

Road to the World Cup, Rail Work vs Patterns, Guest Post

Adventures in Saddle Seat Stepping Stone Farm rider Reagan Upton is on the U.S. Saddle Seat World Cup Team. She is sharing her story. Welcome Reagan. Part 1 [Have Saddle, Will Travel] Part 2 [First Team Practice] Part 3 [Three-Gaited & Five-Gaited] Part 4 [Do I Miss Equitation?] Part 5 [Traveling for the Team]Continue reading “Road to the World Cup, Rail Work vs Patterns, Guest Post”

Baby On Board

Random Snaps When we go over to Stepping Stone Farm with Milton, I bring drinks to store in the tack room. There’s a future foal in the refrigerator! Tell me this isn’t a weird time to be alive. I know the idea was to keep the box cold. I took the photo as quicklyContinue reading “Baby On Board”

Mr. Excitement Regards His Future

Home Team We took Milton to Full Circle Horse Park to walk over the teeny, tiny Amoeba-level jumps. Despite my snarky title and the half-mast ears in the photo, Milton’s attitude was the perfect combination of stepping quietly over the little logs and marching happily around the field. He paused in front of oneContinue reading “Mr. Excitement Regards His Future”

T Is For Thelwell

Graphic Design Wrestling with a Pencil: The Life of a Freelance Artist Norman Thelwell Methuen 1986 Non-fiction, Autobiography Better World UK via AbeBooks.com Inkscape, ellipses Thank you for reading, Katherine Walcott

Paths in the Pasture, a cartoon

Writing & Blogging Thank you for reading. Katherine Walcott

You Can’t Handle The Trot

Tack Box Tales, Adventures in Saddle Seat My favorite Alvin story bears retelling. We were at Midsummer back in 2013 [Show Report]. I was still in Academy Walk-Trot. First and second place riders from the regular classes rode in the championship. Since Alvin & I won the first class, I had the opportunity to hotContinue reading “You Can’t Handle The Trot”