Saturday, March 17, 2018

Awaiting the Farrier


According to the dictionary, a farrier is "a craftsman who trims and shoes horses' hooves." Farriers are critical to a horse's ability to do even the smallest of tasks.

15 comments:

Francisco Manuel Carrajola Oliveira said...

Lindo, um belo cavalo.
Um abraço e bom fim-de-semana.

Andarilhar
Dedais de Francisco e Idalisa
Livros-Autografados

RedPat said...

What a beauty!

Sharon said...

Such a beautiful horse!
Is that something like going for a pedicure?

William Kendall said...

Quite a horse!

magiceye said...

A lovely portrait!

Karl said...

Wait and wait ... fortunately, horses are very patient...

Small City Scenes said...

"For want of a shoe--the war was lost" or something like that. The shoer is very very important'
My late husband was a shoer until -bent under a horse he couldn't straighten up and they brought him home that way. He loved making shoes in the fire. This was back in the day when they used fire to shape the shoe
MB

Bill said...

What a beautiful horse and portrait.

Taken For Granted said...

Farriers do a wonderful job, but these rides only have one horsepower, and have a certain pollution problem.

Kay said...

That's not a common profession anymore, at least not in many of our suburban regions. (And to answer your question, the compromise site could be a good one but I don't think our parks dept. has any interest in breaking stride at this point in the process. I think it was a done deal from the start. We'll see.)

orvokki said...

Lovely photo and the horse looks great.
Hugs.

silvia de angelis said...

Un bellissimo esemplare a quattro zampe, degno di belle osservazioni
Un saluto,silvia

Marleen said...

A very patient horse! Nice photo, Lowell.

PerthDailyPhoto said...

A specialised profession! Such a beauty there Lowell, gorgeous colour!

stardust said...

A beautiful horse standing with a beautiful posture. He looks so patient.

Yoko

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