Horses & Cowboys...

Where have all the horses gone? That is what I've been wondering.  To make cute pony-hide shoes? I've seen cowboys checking fences on four wheelers.  I've seen, across the west, big pastures that once held horses turned to corn fields, unfenced. 

When I lived close to Central Park in NYC, I couldn't wait to ride horses in the park, only the stables on the Upper West Side closed before I got the chance.  Now the PETA brigade is trying to ban horse-drawn carriages from the Central Park. Horses are a relic of the past, like mules.

These chap-covered, cowboy-hatted dudes were for crowd control for the Pilgrimmage to Chimayo north of Santa Fe and its the first time out-and-about I've seen horses with riders since last summer at the rodeo. 

Comments

[Rhonda]

yeah where are they?
Come to think of it...

[allison]

We still see them around occasionally here in Lubbock.