Barb ask if I ride so I went digging for the one picture I had scanned. It was a pretty bad old photo and I showed it to my friend Mark and this was what he came up with. 😀 That’s me sometime in my 20’s on our stud, Chubs Powderface. I had my own horse up until Miranda was 2 and we moved into town. He was young and I was training him. Unfortunately, my brothers horses are in California and I am in Indiana, or I’d be riding them! We had a lot of horses over the years while I was growing up. My dad was breeding for leopards. Here’s a very nice article written about him.
One of the more obscure, and obscured, villains of the New West, eh? *grin* I’m not sure a reward that won’t buy a cuppa is incentive enough for most bounty hunters, so you’re probably safe shopping without a mask and Ten Gallon chapeau.
Nice manipulated image, reminds me a lot of the ‘bad press days’ of the Classics comic books, lol.
Cheers!
pete
Yeah he said he didn’t want to make big big reward or someone might decide to off me for it 😀
okay it’s kind of creepy…chubs looks like he has no eyes…haha…but that’s awesome, what an interesting render! 🙂
Oh yeah, nothing like riding a blind horse! lol
Hey I think I recognize that horse, that rider, and those trees!!! Does that qualify me for a portion of the reward???
Sure, I’ll get the other Mark to send you the $2 but you’ll have to pay the postage 😉
On second thought, I think that I am just seeing spots in-front of my eyes.
That filter put spots on me too. Oh, I think that part of my disguise 😉
Better than being spotless – I think.
Wow, that horse sure is extra spotty! I was fascinated with the website telling the story of your father and his horses. I had never heard of a leopard horse, though the term piebald may be an equivalent here in England.
I was always terrified of riding myself. Strange, because my father’s cousin was a well known racehorse trainer. The other day I saw on TV an interview with the CEO of a major bloodstock (I think that’s the term) dealing firm (horse traders I suppose) with the same surname, Beeby. I wondered if he might be a distant cousin of mine.
Anyway thanks for the very interesting post!
.-= Valerie Beeby´s last blog ..Phoenix Awaits the Bonfires =-.
I always thought of piebald as closer to a paint but I’m not sure really.
I loved riding, I’ve been thrown, stepped on, kicked and it didn’t deter me. A glutton for punishment maybe 😉
Hey — cool!!! Seeing you happily astride a horse, a smile on your face, brightens my day! Looks a little like a woodcut in Painter. Whatever you did in Photoshop, it works. This could be a poster! Thanks for posting it. I’ll head over to read your dad’s article.
What’s keeping you from moving to California??? (You don’t have to answer that — I just wonder sometimes why we don’t take a risk and start again, be it a job or adventure or a physical move. Just thinking…….)
Well, it doesn’t look any worse than it started out 🙂
A couple of things keep me from going to CA. The cost. I could barely afford it out there when I had a good job, no way I could now. Plus here my kids are only 2 hours away.
Close proximity to kids is what keeps us where we are as well. Our kids all settled locally. As long as they’re here, we’ll stay. But then I don’t have a horse farm calling my name, either. 🙂