Foto Friday: Doctor Whooves

When Sunday Stills called for Potluck as this week’s challenge, I’m reasonably sure no one was expecting this:

Rodney's Saga Dr Whooves

Dr scarf instr smRodney wearing a 411-centimeter, custom-knit, chromatically-accurate, Doctor Who scarf. Production details from the creator here.

Note for photographers: My goal for Foto Friday is technical merit as much as content. The foreshortening is not ideal and Rodney’s coat color could be richer. This shot ended being all about photostyling: getting the scarf to drape, making sure it was in the light, getting Rodney’s ears up, having a decent expression on his face, keeping my ugly barn out of the background, and so on.

Brohoof to his kin in Ponyville.

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Update: Questions concerning this post posed here.

Update II: [My Doctor Whooves Scarf, The Origin Story, Guest Post]

New Togs

M blanket
Since she no longer experiences bad weather, Mathilda has a new stable blanket instead of her old turn-out(s). It is deliberately sized small to cut down on the material around her feet as she clambers up. Those Rambo blankets are portable tents. I’d take a picture of her modeling it, but we know how that goes.

When I needed a new winter coat this season, did I buy yards of fan$y new plaid in which to drape myself? Ha! I dug Hubby’s old wool coat out of a closet. Seriously, he worn this on our first date in 1986.

Weekend Plans

Saturday: Horsemanship Challenge. The inward-looking, obsessive side of me wants to know why on earth I ever agreed to hop on strange saddlebred. The outward-looking, perky side of me thinks this will be an adventure. I am trying to dial up the volume on the latter.

Sunday: Awards banquet for Winter Tournament shows [one, two, three]. Perhaps one day I will be sufficiently evolved to be interested in achievement for its own sake rather than for the lure of big, gaudy ribbons. That day is not yet.

Monday: Tooth extraction which I hope will be a good thing [Hi].

I’ll be back to report on the first two when I have recovered from the third. Meanwhile enjoy a few days of horse photos and gratuitous animal pictures. If I have not returned before the photo posts run out, not to worry. It means I’m swanning about the house being catered to. Why does that always happen when I am too sick to enjoy it?
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