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Photos — Fall Colors With Pretty Horses

I took these photos a couple of years ago. It was a very good year for fall color. I was out taking photos and on my way from one location to another when I came across this field with a beautiful spread of trees. I parked alongside the road and got out and as I did, these two horses came galloping from off in the distance towards me. I started shooting photos. They ran right up to the fence and I started talking to them as if they were models, seriously — and they were responding to me. It was a surreal experience. They struck many poses. Here are a few of the better ones.

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GOP: Contraception for Horses, Not for Women

All the pretty horses

The GOP hates them some womenses, but loves them some horsies!

During a month in which the anti-choice Republican and Tea Party majority in Congress and in many states have made it their priority mission to eliminate access to contraception for women here and abroad, and on the very same day that the House planned to vote to take away birth control for women living in poverty in the US and eliminate funding for international family planning, you will be happy to know that there is at least one group the GOP believes deserves access to contraception.

Wild horses.

You just can’t make this shit up.

[cross-posted here at Balloon Juice]

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Hores and Horses!

Kids write the darnedest things

A school teacher once a month has a sticker day.  She gives each child a sticker and asks them to write a story about it.  On this day, she gave a little boy a sticker with a horse on it, his story is below.”1

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[story after the jump]

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