WIN AN ORIGINAL PAINTING

From May 19 through June 30, anyone who buys a print for $98 gets their name in the drawing to WIN AN ORIGINAL PAINTING ($4500) of either their horse/animal or from my available originals of equal value. If you purchase the larger print ($300+), your name will be entered 3 times in the drawing. Don't wait...only 43 days left...click on the link to enter my website and view the prints...prints of new work are also available, just call to order by phone...... http://www.lawebb.com/Home_Page.html

Please pass this contest to anyone you think might be interested....

Happy Trails,

Leslie Anne Webb

530-272-3878

Easter's brewing storm

Easter morning started with some seriously bitter wind, chilling me to the bone, but making my horses ultimately happy....rolling in the mud, bucking, kicking and playing "bite face"....

they were having a ball.......

After playing all morning, Sunny, Charlie and Smokey decided to have a conference and chat about current strategies to antagonize the dogs, who was going to open the gate so they could raid the next pasture, and who was going to turn on the water again and flood the barn...:-)

Rosie's treasures

Rosie perches on her favorite rock, looking over the pasture to make sure all is right with the world....I don't have screens on certain windows so that I can catch life outside without the screen getting in the way......

Rosie was a rescue pup who's mama had taken a tour of the neighborhood and later given birth to 11 pups, 5 very distinctly different breeds (red heads like Rosie, Rottweilers, Shepherds, golden retrievers, and blond labs)....I don't know what breed she is or what mix, but she is a true hunter, nonetheless, and has a habit of bringing me back found treasure.....

Rosie is always so proud of her findings......she takes them with her wherever she goes.....unfortunately, that includes moles and birds and anything else she catches.......

What a smile.........:-)

photo by: Lesley Deutsch

Trails and Vistas- The beautiful environmental experience through art in nature, that has become a once a year production in Lake Tahoe, CA, was called (last September), "Terra Caeli", in which horses were also involved with the artists and dancers.....copy and paste this link to the You Tube site and check it out (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oMz7azb3Rw)........I know many of you may not recognize the VERY WHITE HORSE, but truly, it IS Oscar........only he is CLEAN in the video....not his norm, given his nickname is Pigpen......or "he who loves to wallow in mud puddles".....it took 7 bathes with purple shampoo to get him that clean, and every morning before the event, he needed a refresher as he'd be coated again with fresh horse poop and mud........:-)

In search of an egg....

In search of an egg......for a great recipe that could not go without one....I called around the neighborhood and thankfully, my sweet friend and neighbor 2 miles up the road said I could go and fetch one, even though she wasn't at home....

So, I asked Sam, my 18hh Draft horse, if he wanted to go on an adventure, and without halter or lead, he came out of the pasture and stood while I put on his bridle and climbed the highest fence onto his back.......off we went, me riding bareback on a HOT percheron I hadn't ridden in over a month, up the road to get that egg. Along the way, 2 of my dogs joined us as I have yet to find the hole under the fence by which they like to escape. As we traveled up the gravel road, Rosey, my little treasure finding mutt, was flushing bird and deer out into the road, making my big "baby Huey horse" a quivering pile of nerves. Thankfully, his spinning to flee is in rather large, slow motion by horse standards, so I was still glued to him after every one of his attempts. Random neighborhood dogs that like to jump out of bushes, a white Egret who decides to take flight, and the "too fast driving" young neighbors along the way made for a very adventurous ride..........but, as it went, all was well as I approached home base, sidled up to a fence post, placed 2 eggs (had to borrow an extra one, just in case) very gingerly on the top of the post, took Sam back out to pasture with a big hug and proceeded indoors to tackle the evening........my thought for the day was how GREAT it was that I could ride out my front door to the neighbors by horseback to borrow an egg..........Happy Trails

Winter Storm

It's so unusual to get so much snow at the elevation here at the ranch...but then again, I heard that storm brought snow to Sacramento and parts of the Bay Area.....

The dogs loved it, the tipi was cozy and............

the horses were nestled into the barn......of course, they got extra carrots, apples and yummy grain..........

Before the winter storm

As we neared December this year, the weather was incredible, the fall colors amazing. The horses enjoyed lazy days grazing on new buds of grass.......almost looked like Spring.....

Sam and I with the fall colors blazing........

photo by Lesley Deutsch.