The Litang Horse Festival is a summertime festival held in the village of Letang in the Sichuan province of China. This celebration is generally held during the first week of August & people come from all around southern China & Tibet to trade, celebrate and ride.
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Over the past few months I’ve been featuring collections of old horse photography. It’s so interesting to see how horse life has changed over the years and to see how it was in times past.
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Awhile back I posted some interesting & fantastic old horse photographs and as I’m working through old post ideas I found part 2 (with more to come).
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Awhile back I posted a collection of stable images from around the world (pt. 1 & pt. 2). It’s quite interesting to see the differences in style from place to place & country to country.
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Horses are generally thought of as majestic, noble and handsome animals. However, those of us who know horses best know that more often than not they are silly, cheeky and cute as well.
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Not too long ago I featured some clever horse signs from around the world and today it’s time for part 2. I’m hard at work scouring the web to find interesting horse gift ideas to share so I’m keeping things short today.
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Horse people are known for their sense of humor, we have to – what other animal lover spends so much time dealing with poop? That said the signage associated with horses often carries that humor along, whether it’s in the form of a snarky slogan or in placement of the sign itself.
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In my endless searches for ‘horse’ online, I run across some fantastic images – some of them amazing enough to create an entire post around them. Although I’m fully aware that horses don’t actually physically smile, it sure seems that way to those that love them.
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There is a commonly held belief that equestrian statues follow a sort of code, which essentially dictates how the rider died. While it seems like it could make sense, all it takes is stopping to consider just how many equestrian statues exist in this world of ours.
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Image from Jason Pier in DC
Lately I’ve been looking for more of the unusual where horse art is concerned, and recently I’ve featured everything from embroidery to fun old postcards. Since I threw my posting schedule out the window (literally) I’ve been exploring my creative side.
One of my guilty television pleasures is Antiques Roadshow, so I decided to go on a virtual equine roadshow of my own in the hopes of finding some cool equestrian theme antiques to share. Horses have always made popular toys & the majority of what I found probably made youngsters somewhere very happy. They are very different of the bright, plastic horse toys of today aren’t they?
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