Friday, December 23, 2011

Quarter Horse - downtown square

This is one of the new "Horse Fever" horses in Ocala and is literally a "quarter" horse. Attached in various places on this horse are quarters...plastic quarters. Unfortunately, persons unknown have pried many of them off leaving the poor horse with numerous scars. We'll show close-up photos of the horse in the near future.

Photo by Lois Anne.
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16 comments:

  1. ElettraDecember 23, 2011 at 5:01 PM

    This statue has graced the park a lot !!!!!!! Happy and peaceful Christmas to you and your family, with so much friendship and joy Elettra

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  2. JackDecember 23, 2011 at 5:16 PM

    I read recently that in Austin, Texas, Lucy Baines Johnson paid something like $150,000 for a decorated cow made to look like a longhorn and covered with something like 10,000 pennies. The story was in a Hartford newspaper because a local company is the organizer of these "cow parades" and the artist was from here, too.

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  3. AnonymousDecember 23, 2011 at 5:20 PM

    Love that... I had a kid on my school bus glue (super glue) a quarter to the floor... it took a mechanic with a large screw driver and a hammer to get it up and yes, it scarred the floor... poor horse! Merry Christmas!

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  4. Chattahoochee Valley DailyDecember 23, 2011 at 9:49 PM

    Maybe they need to put a sign next to it to inform the riffraff that the quarters are not real...

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  5. RandyDecember 23, 2011 at 10:18 PM

    Ha ha I love it! The lampposts look great too!

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  6. Memphis MOJODecember 24, 2011 at 12:30 AM

    Nice shot, can't wait for the close-up.

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  7. cieldequimperDecember 24, 2011 at 5:08 AM

    Groan. Steal quarters? How low is that?

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  8. PatDecember 24, 2011 at 6:05 AM

    In my home town of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, they did cows a number of years back. One was entirely, and I mean entirely, covered with shiny pennies...most of which stayed there.

    Someone didn't know that pennies make dollars... ;)

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  9. Irredento UrbanitaDecember 24, 2011 at 7:09 AM

    Lowell, wish you a Merry Christmas!!

    Hugs

    Valery

    Barcelona Daily Photo

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  10. UnknownDecember 24, 2011 at 7:20 AM

    Very cool! Happy Christmas, Lois Anne and Lowell!

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  11. BirdmanDecember 24, 2011 at 9:03 AM

    Well, I'll be a horse's...
    Merry Christmas Eve!

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  12. SRQDecember 24, 2011 at 10:09 AM

    lol -- quarter horst. That's a cute concept. The park looks very festive. Hope you're enjoying the season!

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  13. SharonDecember 24, 2011 at 10:37 AM

    This one is a real beauty. I really like the concept here. When I was living in Chicago, they had an art competition with cows. There were colorful cows all over the city.

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  14. JudyDecember 24, 2011 at 10:48 AM

    I can imagine how heavy that would be if they were real quarters. Shame on someone for making scars on the poor creature. I like the pretty decorations!

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  15. RedPatDecember 24, 2011 at 1:32 PM

    There are always fools among us!
    Merry Christmas to you!

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  16. HildaJanuary 4, 2012 at 4:18 AM

    A pun! Groan.

    :p

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