You'll have to click the photo below for a larger view and to see clearer, but this horse has the prettiest blue eyes.
It also has a long blonde mane and a color at the top of its head that makes it look like a sweatband with the hair spilling out over it. It was a hot day and the animal was lathered up a bit, too.
Reminded me of my ex-wife after her exercise classes.
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There's another photo of this same horse in the post Ebony and Ivory.
4 comments:
I always liked blue eyes on a horse, thought on most of them it looked unique and beautiful.
Old timers used to call a blue eyed horse "watch eyed". Not sure the etymology of that one. Usually it's the lighter coloured horses, the paliminos, the cremes that get the blue eyes. Or as is the case with that fella, the white markings of his face encompase his eyes. They call that a bald face.
Ok, enough of me prattling on about horses. I will say that one of my favorite horses from my youth was a blue eyed gelding named Cocoa.
He was the color or coffee with cream, had a slightyly darker shade for his mane and tail, had a blad face marking and blue eyes. I always thought it made him look very fancy. I cried when the farm I worked sold him. (heck, I got attached to all 20 or so horses stabled there.)
I stand corrected about the facial markings on that horse picture you posted Mike. He's got a very unique color pattern called a medicine hat. I remeber reading that pinto horses born with those markings were highly prized by the native americans and were quite uncommon.
I was going to find a photo of that actress, but couldn't remember her name. At first I thought of Kirstie Alley because she's got such pale blue eyes, but it's another actress and I cannot for the life of me remember any of the movies she's been in.
I was going to put them side-by-side but the horse pic isn't as clear as I wanted.
I know a few ladies of Hispanic descent, and they have some blue/gray eyes, very striking against their brown faces. I forget what I was told, what sort of ancestory that trait is from, it's like Castillian or some other Spanish area.
I like hearing your horse stories, I appreciate the effort and time taken to respond. I know there's not many that view this blog and I do this not only for myself, but to amuse my pals. Doesn't hurt nuthin', and it's a good place to store my pics (Picassa seems safer than Groups) and I get more satisfaction than I do in Groups.
That's interesting about the "medicine hat", I will have to research that, learn sumpthin' new every day if I keep my ears and eyes open and mouth shut.
Since I'm a mouth-breather, that last is a little hard to do....
I think I've exhausted the population of 4-legged creatures out there, except there's some mini-donks I want to take some photos of. The first time I saw 'em out there, they ran and hid when I tried to take their pic.
I've got a friend down in my old home town, that was really close to where I took the Horse Laughs pics, I wrote and told that his daughter has a bbl horse, very pretty. He's been on horses all his life, and his dad was one of the last "old time" cowboys that I knew. Their horses are always in the best shape I've ever seen, sometimes a bit scarred up because they were working horses, not riding stable ponies.
I was with him once and we went out to exercise their horses and he put me on his dad's, saying he'd been lame, to take it easy on him.
Well, as soon as I got on, he reared up and took off at a near-gallop (whatever that would be called) My buddy was yellin' at me to rein him in, but I couldn't, he didn't want to mind and I wasn't getting firm enough with him. I finally bent his head down to his chest and he stopped...or at least slowed down to a steady trot.
I always figgered that he enjoyed getting out, or at least had missed it during his downtime and wanted to stretch his legs. He prob. also sensed he could do as he damned well pleased with this new, tentative rider.
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