Leopard Appie with Spot on his Ear.

My friend, Linda Shantz, is having a busy month, what with writing projects, caring for horses, and painting a horse a day, she's one busy lady! The weather isn't co-operating with her, as the rain makes her horses muddy and causes a lot of extra work.

I got to thinking about when I was creating at least one painting a day, and how it's hard to come up with reference material of your own when you're doing that kind of project. You get so familiar with your own photos, sometimes it's hard to see the forest for the trees and you can't decide which photo you want to paint from on any given day.

So I sent her a photo from my collection, of a horse with a cute look in his eye. I didn't know what day she would paint that horse, but she did tell me was going to use him. When I saw her blog, with that horse and the cute look in his eye, I recognized him in one second. She did such a great job of painting him!

Here's a couple more photos of that same horse, he's got such an odd spot on his ear, and see below, he has vertical stripes down his front legs! I just think that's interesting. I wish he was mine, I could really get used to the way he looks!

Hope you enjoyed seeing him too...
Donna Ridgway

Bright eyed and beautiful, horse photos.

I love this bright eyed horse! Not only was he bright eyed, he had vertical stripes down his front legs, something I've not seen on another horse. Another day, I'll post his legs.

This horse, was just plain gorgeous, such a soft look in her eye.

I've switched from my poor dilapidated mac G4 laptop to a new windows machine running Vista. I had the greatest fear of windows! I never would have believed I could switch and be so happy about it. But this new computer is great.

The files pop open quickly, no matter how large they are. I haven't had chance to do a lot of things on here yet, as I've been so busy setting it up, downloading programs etc... But what I have accomplished, I've been very pleased with.

I had an old Wacom tablet hooked to my very first mac, I couldn't get it to run on my G4 computers for some weird reason. I decided to give it a try today and imagine my surprise when I went to the Wacom site, and downloaded the very driver I needed! After about 10 years, it's still good on a brand new computer. It's working perfectly. So expect some computer drawings soon!

Thanks for stopping by...

Donna Ridgway