Shopping the Horse Country of Germany – June 2006
geoff young all photos by geoff young When Nancy Gooding asked Valerie and me if we wanted to go shopping with her, I thought, sure, I could use some new shirts. Twelve days later, at 43,000 feet above the spot where the Titanic went down in the North Atlantic, I saw the Northern Lights through […]
The Beautiful Kranich – Count Anton Günther’s Favorite Oldenburg- July 2006
kip mistral The driving force for a writer is curiosity. One minute we’re minding our own business, and the next we’re experiencing something like whiplash when our attention is suddenly diverted by something fascinating and mysterious. And then we can’t rest until we explore it, wherever it leads… I had inspected the wonders of Rosenberg […]
Kid Gloves, Big Bucks, and Team Spirit – the role that owners play in horse sports – December 2006
evalyn bemis The rising cost of good horses and the need to have a barn full of them in order to be competitive has meant many riders must look to others to own their horses. What sort of person is willing to fulfill that role and on what […]
Stal El Paradiso – A quest for grace in classical Equitation – August 2006
kip mistral In Arthurian legend, the sacred cup known as “The Grail” was sought by the Knights of the Round Table as the object of an extended or difficult quest. The story of the quest for the Grail has become a metaphor for an idealistic, intellectual or […]
Here Lies L’Ame – The struggle to save Russia’s imperial equine cemetery – April 2006
kip mistral We have all experienced it…we are going along, minding our own affairs, looking neither to the right nor to the left, when suddenly there appears before us something we can’t ignore, something we realize later seemed to have been put into our lives to change them. So it happened the day that Frenchman […]
John Kelly – A life in Focus – January 2006
geoff young photos by John Kelly When John Kelly plunked down $140 for a Nikon camera while serving in the Vietnam War, the infantry platoon leader began a lifelong journey, one image at a time, and developed a prolific career in photography. And with a sense of history instilled in him by his father, who […]
The Secret Life of Stallions – Fathers and Husbands – February 2006
kip mistral How often do we humans assume we understand the value or meaning of something and not realize until much later that we didn’t understand it at all? Perhaps we accept such assumptions on our part because it is simple to accept longstanding notions and myths though our instinct might be warning us differently, […]