The Art of Natural Dressage

Photobucket does not enable embedding pictures in forums anymore, so I have created a flickr account. This is a first test to see whether it works. If it does, I will delete my old picture thread and post new pictures in this thread from now on.

Those are beautiful pictures! Are they all in your summer pasture? I especially like the second one, with Baca and the wildflowers. Thank you for sharing them!

Summy is looking into the distance. And I am looking forward to the summer meeting.

Those are all such lovely pictures! I hope that you and everyone else have a great time at the summer meeting!

oh i love the pictures - just found the new thread now...
the pasture looks amazing - i hope we will be able to visit there when we meet?
big hugs to all of you
looking forward to see you all soon too

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Love the pictures!!, looks beautiful.

And that reminds me I have always used photobucket as well. It's annoying because I think our diary will be full of broken links at some point.

Baca pictures from yesterday... an update in his diary is coming soon, but things are really going well

Curcuma muzzle


Baca hated cherries and always spat them out - until I pushed one into his muzzle while he was closing it and so he accidentally bit into it - and suddenly realized that cherries are darn delicious. It's the same thing with Baca again and again, first saying No to everything that is new and then coming to realize that he is loving it.


A hairy little crocodile




This is our village's bus station

Glad to hear he is going well!!! And love the pictures!

Hey Romy, thank you for the photos He is such a cutie so great that everything is going well and so great that you have a possibility to go swimming with the horses that's so cool

Thank you, Marina and Marlene.

Yesterday I started putting a fence around our little forest area.









When we are in this pasture, we hardly go for walks, because the pasture itself is a huge adventure playground. We have streams to jump, raspberry bushes to eat from, fallen branches that to climb through, and endless possiblities to play hide-and-seek with the horses. As the pasture is so wide and has so many corners, it is super easy to spend one-on-one time with a horse while the others are out of sight.

i love the pictures,
what a magical place
did i get to see that part of the pasture or is it new? it this the place with the small stream?

and baca is not the only one that looks more mature...
i love nora and beca's picture it is simply wonderful.

Summy is photogenic as usual


raspberry bushes - sound perfect !!!!
i just want to say - (and this is for you Nora if you still likes mangos - we soon will have lots of them here - but the surrounding is rather small :-) and not as magical
wish i could come visit you there this year....
but i am already planing for next year.

i miss you

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On Friday I visited our new pony Jolie.

When we first arrived there, he still was very shy. For me this is a great sign, because his owner said that he hasn't had much contact with people, yet, and this is exactly what I wanted. A horse who has never experienced that people make him do things against his will.


Once he realized that humans can be good scratchers, he loosened up...


This picture shows how tiny he is...


...and the following ones just show how cute he is






He will stay at his current home until December, and although I would love to have him with us right now, it is okay for me as obviously he is in great company.

Oh Romy, now you have a mini too and what a beautiful one I`m already in love with Jolie, such a beauty!
Will you visit him more often till december? Can`t wait to hear about starting to play and interact with him, it`s so exciting.

WOOOOOOHOOOOO
just saw the email notification and your post now.
i miss you guys soo much and thinking about you lately often.

i am so excited you are getting a new guy
"Jolie"
he looks like a little prince
what an adventure.
i wonder how Pia will react... and your big boys

How old is he?
what will happen in December - is that when you move to the winter pasture next to your apartment so you get more time and a suitable space to get him used to his new family?

i love the pictures, the one before the last and the one where he enjoys scratching and all of them.
miss you so much
so glad you shared some pictures here
hugs and scratches to you all

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Thank you, Marlene and Anat!


I hope so, but we have not made any specific plans, yet.


Funny that you say this, because his full name is Nizhoni's Jolie Noble. The first word refers to the breeder and the rest means "beautiful nobleman" (although jolie is the female form) - so he is a little prince indeed.


Two years - perfect age for me, first because the chances are high that he will become very wild and second because he has not yet experienced work with humans and thus never been made to do anything against his will.


Exactly, we will move to the winter pastures in December. I am sure that Titum will want to kill him again (like Pia and Baca), so I need a pasture setup with a Titum island in the middle and pony fences surrounding it, so that no matter in which direction Titum chases him, he can always escape and Titum cannot follow him.

On one hand i hope all your guys will immediately fall in love with this young nobale man
but on the other hand i bet this will be an exciting adventures for all

i was just thinking of this lately how, here we kind of settled into a routine for the last couple of years... not a lot of big changes, for the last 2-3 years i was soo absorbed with Pip special needs that took out a lot of energy and less time to add diversity and adventures into our life.

so hopefully giving Titum a reason to form and express his preferences about this (but at the same time keep Jolie alive ) will add zetz to life and interest to everyone.

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Some pasture pictures of my little rainbow foal.

Oh how beautiful

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Frodur's diary

Thanks, Gwenda!

I just noticed that I have not posted any photos of the foal on which you can see what he really looks like. So here are two, one from two weeks ago in the forest near our summer pastures and one from today.

Some pictures from today's walk with Summy and Maymun.

Two pictures of Maymun's current favourite exercise, the back crunch, and some more climbing pics.

Some pictures of Maymun and Jolie in snow paradise.

More winter wonderland pictures from today's forest walk.

Tonight I took some pictures of my night foal. Most of them look more like modern art than like a horse...






...but we also got some on which you can see the beautiful foal

Jolie has learnt to sit up and eat treats after rolling.



The next day it was snowy and Jolie was full of ice... and super cute!











However, he cannot only look cute but also like a scary snow monster

How thoroughly adorable! The last picture made me laugh; he looks like a completely different pony!

Thank you, Haley!

Last night the foal and I went out to take some city pictures.







Usually it is so hard to get a decent picture of him, because he always comes to me. However, when he can stand on a pedestal (and stairs count as a pedestal) I can go anywhere and he would stay there forever.

Today we went for a walk with lots of water variations.

Jolie standing in the water. Later I took off my boots and went in even deeper with him, so that the water reached up to his belly. Unfortunately, we have no pictures of that.


Having very thin legs afterwards. In combination with the thick fur, this makes him look like a waterbird


Both boys jumping over a ditch with water




Jolie playing in the icy water: smashing ice with Ida


And Jolie being quite wet after rolling in the melting snow, which makes him look like a hedgehog

I just wanted to come by and say: Looking at all those photos and read about your walks makes me so happy!

Thank you very much, Marlene! So nice to know that you are happy for and with us.

Here are some pictures of yesterday's walk to the Lohmener Klamm with Maymun and Pia. This is a ravine with a stream and rocks - my favorite place in our area.









Here we would have to go down a steep hill with stone stair, cross the streem via a tiny metal bridge, and then climb up many more stairs at the other side. As the foaly was scared and I knew that this path is scary even with an experienced horse, we did not do it but turned around and walked the same way back.

Ooohh what a pretty baby you have now Romy

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Horseriding is an art

My horse is a beautiful living sculpture

Thank you, Barbara! The baby already is four now and last year we got another baby brother for him, Aahnuu - who also is two already... time flies. You can find some pictures here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/151286774@N08/

Hello girls! Ohhh Romy such beautiful pictures!!
How are you all?
Wanted to update the forum and didn't succeed... asked someone who is a programmer but didn't work. My goal was to have it back for your bday Romy! Luckily got it back.. but still not updated. Anyway, have been thinking a lot about AND again and would like to figure out a way to capture the most somewhere for more people to see. Maybe a Wordpress website where we make posts from the different topics?
Any ideas?

Anyway hope to talk more soon! Big kiss to you all!!!

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Hi Bianca, so great that the forum is back, and also wonderful to read from you! I have also been thinking about the forum a lot lately. I'll update my diaries these days - for now I just wanted to let you know that I saw you message and will answer soon.

it crashed again this morning and luckily it's back but maybe good to copy diary updates also somewhere else
big hug to you dear!!!

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