I’ve known M for as long as I can remember.  And for as long as I can remember, she has loved horses.  When I was a kid, she would drive me to the barn in her orange sports car to babysit for her adorable daughter while she got her riding fix.

Today, she runs a farm with horses, an emu, chickens, pigs, two dogs and a very cute chinchilla.  She is an amazing, gentle soul.  She is incredibly kind and incredibly strong, she is beautiful, and is someone I admire and enjoy talking to.

I had the pleasure of watching her with the animals and photographing her with them.  You can see how much she loves these animals, and how beautiful they are.  She says that they are like her babies, and you can tell that they know it!

Last weekend, I had the honor of participating in my friend Mindy’s holiday party.  She has vendors whose work she enjoys there, and she asked me to come with some of my work and a slideshow.  It was a great time!  She had an incredibly delicious lunch set out, an awesome bluegrass band in her barn, and lots of great friends and family around.  She also has a 12 acre horse farm which houses five or six horses, two pigs, a chicken named Lemon and a rooster, a mini horse, and, my son’s favorite, the emu.  I was admittedly a little scared of the horses, but the emu was a okay in my book.  She tried to peck my lens a few times, THANK GOODNESS she missed, but I got a great shot of her.

Close enough to kiss!

Thanks for a great day, Mindy!