Horses & Other Interests
Travel photos now. Back to horse news later.
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I was here …
… saw this …
… went for a closer look.
The metal barriers in the middle photo are blocking off part of the street. After a few minutes, the two riders went into the empty space and marched up and down for a photo shoot. I never did find out why.
I watched for a while.
All of New York City at my feet, and I spend 20 minutes looking at horses.
Yup.
Time for me to go home.
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Katherine Walcott
Spotted working the crowd while the home team idles.
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I finally got my horse to Madison Square Garden.
Bucket List – Accomplished
I am grateful for having … Ridden at the National Horse Show … I’m not bitter about the fact that I rode in the National the first year it moved from New York City to New Jersey. Really. Not bitter at all.
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Katherine Walcott
Spotted filling the gap while horses – and people – get back to work after Milton’s surgery.
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I’ve been wanting to see these murals in person ever since I saw them online [T-Shirts for the Barn]. NYC Subway – Artwork: Alice: The Way Out (Liliana Porter) Finding NYC – Subway Station Art: 50th Street Station
Fearless Girl & Bull photo originally appeared in New York Cliché, Guest Post: Born and Raised a New York Native….But Now? [In Which I Reblog Myself].
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In transit
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Katherine Walcott
Downtime. Catching up on vacation photos. Back to current when there is something to report.
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This is the building I lived in from 4th grade to the middle of 9th grade. As a kid, I lived in seven(?) places, six of which I remember. If you asked me to imagine my childhood home, this is the one that would come to mind. (If you asked me where I grew up after the age of 14, I’d probably say the barn.)
NYC Parks: Riverside Park, General Franz Sigel Legible text of second sign.
Jiggety jig or jiggety jog? Say what you want about big data, there are times when the Internet is too cool.
Finally, what is with the ugly, gaping mouths on horse statues? [Horses of NYC 2015]
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Katherine Walcott
Horses fine. People fine. Narrative content non-existent. There’s only so many posts that I can spin out of nobody going nowhere. I thought about taking a break. Instead, I will use the time to catch up on vacation photos. I hope to return to regularly scheduled programming once I am doing something more riveting than watching Milton graze.
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Katherine Walcott
As I wandered around the AmeriStamp Expo, folks kept asking me, ‘What do you collect?’ I mumbled something about getting started [Year of the Stamp], while thinking, ‘Don’t mind me. I’m just here for the blog posts.’
I watched customers hunched over dealer tables, flipping through boxes and albums, checking the items on offer against lists and notebooks. I made snap judgments about an entire subgroup based on 15 minutes of observation: older, white, male, chatty. I looked at row upon row of stamp competition entrants. People compete with stamps? Why, yes they do. People compete at everything.
I needed a guide through this new world. So, I looked – of course – for a book.
I joined the American Topical Association, resulting in a pile of loot including a huge head start on forming a horse-stamp group.
I learned about cachets – drawings on envelopes – from the American First Day Cover Society.
The one thing I didn’t buy was a stamp, other than the ones on the first day covers. The various dealers had hundreds? thousand? hundreds of thousands? of stamps for sale, from buy-’em-by-the-bucket to credit-check-first-please. Unfortunately, stamps are arranged by country, not by ‘Horses, pretty pictures of.’
I wanted to stay longer, but my brain was full.
Interesting Links
Colorful Year of the Horse stamps from Vietnam
Donald Evans painted fascinating, tiny watercolors as stamps from non-existent countries.
Carol Gordon is (was?) an amazing cachet, i.e. envelope, artist. Despite the huge range displayed in a show entry, her work doesn’t have a centralized Internet presence (Please correct me if I’m wrong). Mostly, Google turns up items for sale: Year of the Pig, Edna St. Vincent Millay. This woman’s career is crying out for a web page.
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How much of this sudden interest in stamps is due to the blog and how much is personal? I’d say 50/50. I wouldn’t pursue the idea without an outlet, i.e. blog posts. On the other hand, I wouldn’t research and write about an area for content alone. (I would if someone paid me, but that was a previous life.) Stamps are interesting. Stamps will generate blog posts. Win/win. [RS stamp page]
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Katherine Walcott
“Behind The Scenes: Heidi Degele, Dressage-Horse Sales Agent”
USDF Connection
February 2018
United States Dressage Federation
A short interview with a trainer of sales horses.
©2018 United States Dressage Federation. Used by permission. Reproduction prohibited without prior written permission of the publisher.
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Katherine Walcott
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