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Akhal-Teke: the golden horse of the desert

Akhal-Teke: the golden horse of the desert / The Akhal Teke is considered to be one of the oldest of modern domesticated equine breeds in existence. The breed as it is known today first appeared in Turkmenistan, Central Asia, in Kara Kum, a rocky, flat desert surrounded by mountains which played a significant role in preserving the Akhal Teke’s purity. Tribesmen of Turkmenistan first used the horses for raiding and they were selectively bred for speed and agility.

American Saddlebred

American Saddlebred / The American Saddlebred is a horse breed from the United States. Descended from riding-type horses bred at the time of the American Revolution, the American Saddlebred includes the Narragansett Pacer, Canadian Pacer, Morgan and Thoroughbred among its ancestors.

Andalusians / Friesians / Lusitanos / Lipizzaners

Andalusians / Friesians / Lusitanos / Lipizzaners / "...This most noble beast is the most beautiful,
the swiftest and of the highest courage of domestic animals.
His long mane and tail adorn and beautify him.
He is of a fiery temperament,
but good tempered, obedient, docile and well- mannered." ~ Pedro Garcia Conde, 1685 ~

Appaloosas / The Appaloosa is a horse breed best known for its colorful leopard-spotted coat pattern. There is a wide range of body types within the breed, stemming from the influence of multiple breeds of horses throughout its history. Each horse's color pattern is genetically the result of various spotting patterns overlaid on top of one of several recognized base coat colors.

Arabians / "The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears." ~ Arabian proverb ~ The Arabian or Arab horse is a breed of horse that originated on the Arabian Peninsula. With a distinctive head shape and high tail carriage, the Arabian is one of the most easily recognizable horse breeds in the world.

Arachnida / Arachnids is a class (Arachnida) of joint-legged invertebrate animals (arthropods), in the subphylum Chelicerata. All arachnids have eight legs, although the front pair of legs in some species has converted to a sensory function, while in other species, different appendages can grow large enough to take on the appearance of extra pairs of legs.

Artist Extraordinaire

Artist Extraordinaire / "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." ~ Pablo Picasso ~ Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities; this page focuses primarily on the visual arts, which includes the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.

Black * White * Stripes * Dots

Bling Bling / “I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.” ~ Mae West

Beyond Blonde / I like to feel blonde all over. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Chapeau / "Live your life, do your work, then take your hat." - Henry David Thoreau

Cows as Cows / “One can measure the greatness of a nation and its moral progress by the way it treats its animals. Cow protection to me is not mere protection of the cow. It means protection of all that lives and is helpless and weak in the world. The cow means the entire subhuman world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi.

Delightful Dali

Delightful Dali / "I don't do drugs. I am drugs." - Salvador Dali

Divine Dancer / I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. - Mikhail Baryshnikov

Elephant Envy / Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole. ~ Samuel Richardson

Feathered Friends

Feathered Friends / "Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings." - Victor Hugo

Feline Frenzy / "Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it." ~ Rod McKuen

Gear & Tack / "No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle." ~ Winston Churchill ~ Tack is a piece of equipment or accessory equipped on horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals. Saddles, stirrups, bridles, halters, reins, bits, harnesses, martingales, and breastplates are all forms of horse tack.

Golden Palomino

Golden Palomino / What's better than being blond? With flaxen mane and tail..

Gone to the Dogs

Gone to the Dogs / "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Mark Twain

Hands On / "As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others." ~ Audrey Hepburn

Incredible Insects

Incredible Insects / Insects are a class of invertebrates within the arthropod phylum that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body, three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae.

Lashes * Glasses * Scarves

Lashes * Glasses * Scarves

Lovely Locks / I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair. ~ Bette Davis

Mane Fever / The mane is the hair that grows from the top of the neck of a horse or other equine, reaching from the poll to the withers, and includes the forelock or foretop.

Marwari / Kathiawari

Marwari / Kathiawari / The Marwari or Malani is a rare breed of horse from the Marwar region of India. Known for its inward-turning ear tips, it comes in all equine colours, although pinto patterns tend to be the most popular with buyers and breeders.

The Kathiawari is a breed of horse from India, originating in the Kathiawar peninsula. Closely related to the Marwari horse, and resembling both that breed and the Arabian horse from which they descend.

Melody Maker / "One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." Bob Marley

Masques & Masquerade

Masques & Masquerade

Men / "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." ~ Abraham Lincoln

Mouth to Mouth / A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ~ Ingrid Bergman

Objects * Collectibles

Objects * Collectibles / Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. ~ Swami Sivananda

Of A Certain Age

Of A Certain Age / None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. ~ Henry David Thoreau

On the Run / "Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast."
- William Shakespeare

Paint / Piebald / Pinto

Paint / Piebald / Pinto / A horse that looked like it had been splashed with black, white and brown paint. All Paint horses (except for the small number of "solids" allowed into the Paint registry) could be registered as pintos, but not all pintos qualify to be registered as Paints. Genetically, a piebald horse begins with a black base coat colour, and then the horse also has an allele for one of three basic spotting patterns overlaying the base colour.

Patterns * Shapes

Patterns * Shapes

Peter Beard ~ Extraordinaire

Peter Beard ~ Extraordinaire / "A beautiful woman is the last uncorrupted manifestation of nature that we have left on Earth." ~ Peter Beard

Pool Pleasure / Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool.
~ Eric Shanteau

Ray of Light / It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

RV Neil Armstrong

RV Neil Armstrong / The #RVNeilArmstrong (AGOR-27) is an oceanographic research ship owned by the U.S. Navy and operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). It was named in honor of Neil Armstrong, and was launched on March 29, 2014, christened by Carol Armstrong. The RV Neil Armstrong is 238 ft long, has a total of 44 people on board, 20 crew members and 24 scientists, and operates for a duration of 30 to 45 days. The ship has state of the art oceanographic equipment allowing deep ocean mapping and information technology for ship monitoring and worldwide land-based communication. Personal note: I was thrilled to learn that the ship also protects whales and studies 'great white sharks'! Thanks for the tour! #fleetweek2017 #oceanscience #STEM #marinebiology #whales #Artic #climatechange #globalwarming #changingocean #protectsharks

Sacred * Tattoo * Scars * Tribal

Sacred * Tattoo * Scars * Tribal / “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Khalil Gibran

Self~Portrait / A self-portrait is a representation of an artist, drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by the artist. Although self-portraits have been made by artists since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century that artists can be frequently identified depicting themselves as either the main subject, or as important characters in their work.

Sophisticated Rogue

Sophisticated Rogue / A sophisticated rogue with a knack for well-dressed mischief, he is equally at home in opulent ballrooms as he is in seedy back alley pubs. ~ Monsieur Fox

Room with a View

Room with a View / "The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization." ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Street Cred / Commanding a level of respect in an urban environment due to experience in or knowledge of issues affecting those environments.

Up In Smoke / "I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since."
Arturo Toscanini

Personal Ink (P.INK)

Personal Ink (P.INK) / Saved Tattoo, Brooklyn. P.INK Day 2013 brought together 10 artists and 10 breast cancer survivors to heal with ink. [p-ink.org] (Images: www.gigistoll.com)

V is for Viggo / There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever. ~ Viggo Mortensen

Women / "It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating." Katharine Hepburn

Tunnel Vision / through the rabbit hole..

Ruth Orkin, photographer

Ruth Orkin, photographer / Growing up in Hollywood during the Golden Age, it’s natural that Ruth Orkin would work in photo and film media. That she later became an award-winning photojournalist and published several widely acclaimed books is a testament to innate talent.

Wild Things / “And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

Flo Fox, photographer

Flo Fox, photographer / Flo Fox is legally blind, yet she has shot over 120,000 images and counting. "I'd like to prove that even though I'm a total cripple, I can still take fantastic photos," Fox says of her continuously growing portfolio. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at age 30, Fox, now 69 and completely paralyzed, still takes her camera with her everywhere, having attendants, friends, and strangers take photos for her with an autofocus camera. http://flofox.com/

Arlene Gottfried, photographer

Arlene Gottfried, photographer / Arlene Gottfried, born in Brooklyn, graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, and worked as a photographer at an ad agency before freelancing for top publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Life, and The Independent in London. Gottfried has exhibited at the Leica Gallery in New York and in Tokyo, and at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., among others. http://www.arlenegottfried.com/

Helen Levitt, photographer

Helen Levitt, photographer / Influenced by Eugene Atget, surrealism and Jean Cocteau’s films, Helen Levitt’s encounter with Walker Evans and Henri Cartier-Bresson, in the early 1930s, was particularly inspirational in the making of her images. From the 1940s, the American photographer never intended to use photograph to chronicle social stories but simply preferred to show children playing, people engaged in conversations or wandering because it was a trivial everyday life.

Erika Stone, photographer

Erika Stone, photographer /

Erika Stone's documentary photographs reflect her long, active career as a photo journalist and magazine photographer. In the 40's, Stone was a member of the legendary Photo League, an organization of photo documentarians which she feels most influenced her approach to her personal photographic work. It was during the years as a League member that she developed her interest in documenting people and at the age of seventeen, produced her Bowery series. http://www.erikastone.com/

Meryl Meisler, photographer

Meryl Meisler, photographer / Meryl began photographing herself, family, and friends while enrolled in a photography class at The University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1975, Meryl returned to New York City and studied with Lisette Model, continuing to photograph her hometown and the city around her. Meryl lives and works in New York City, continuing the photographic memoir she began in 1973 – a uniquely American story, sweet and sassy with a pinch of mystery. http://www.merylmeisler.com/

Lisette Model, photographer

Lisette Model, photographer / During the first half of the 20th century, the artistic life of America underwent a variety of profound changes. Lisette Model (1906-1983), with her stark realism and search for truth through photography, was at the forefront of these changes.

Women’s Rights Are Human Rights

Women’s Rights Are Human Rights / “Our priorities are winning economic equality and securing it with an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that will guarantee equal rights for women; championing abortion rights, reproductive freedom and other women's health issues; opposing racism; fighting bigotry against the LGBTQIA community; and ending violence ..."

And they're off..

And they're off.. / "Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys or driven over a set distance for competition. It is one of the most ancient of all sports and its basic premise – to identify which of two or more horses is the fastest over a set course or distance – has remained unchanged since the earliest times."

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