Thursday, February 5, 2009

A Couple of Short Videos

A couple of jockeys working. Check out the style of the second guy.



Andrea Fappani



Craig got pretty pissed that someone was filming his presentation. The guy set up a tripod and was right up front. As Craig put it, "Monday morning the guy will be selling his "Craig Cameron" video on ebay for $29.99". I'm sure Andrea doesn't mind my 23 second clip.

And Even MORE Pictures

I was trying to figure out a way to use that Lytebox thing on the No Worries site on Blogger to post these pictures, but I couldn't even figure it out there, so what chance did I have?

These are the last of the photos. I have a couple of short videos to get up soon.

These are some of the foothills near Pomona.



Some action shots of the jockeys working in the morning (I think this was Saturday morning)












Andrea Fappani did a reining clinic. This was a really nice horse.



This is a Fell Pony. We have friends named Fell so I took it as a joke. Nice horse though.



Chris Cox. It was on an earlier demonstration that as he mounted his horse, the horse shied or something and he came right off. I didn't see it, but, of course he blamed himself for not paying attention to where he was in the arena and checking out the horse a little beforehand.





There was a fire on the Grapevine on the way back. If you look closely you can see the firefighters' line.



These are some pictures from this morning right outside our store. Max and I just got back from our walk and we were on our way to the tennis courts. It's pretty windy and the weatherman predicted a storm coming in (it's raining now at 1:30 PM). It was just before sunrise and the light was pretty spectacular. Since I had your attention I thought I would toss them in. I think if you click on them they get bigger.



More Travel Pictures









And then I hit LA traffic! This happens everyday. Crap, I'm glad I don't live there anymore.

More over the Grapevine

Some early morning shots of Pyramid Lake.











Some pictures from the Good Camera

So Blogger loves to mess with the pictures. These are in reverse order. There is a mountain pass called the Grapevine between Bakersfield and Los Angeles. Aptly named because the old road winded like a grapevine and there are grapes grown on our side of the mountains. On my way down on Friday I took some shots through the windshield and side windows. The morning light was very interesting as was trying to drive and adjust the camera.

This is a lake called Pyramid Lake, a reservoir for the Los Angeles valley.



Just before sunrise. Note the amount of traffic.



My "artistic" rear-view-mirror shot.



Nearing the summit.



Notice the "snow" still on the ground.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Here are some more pictures

I think these were taken on Friday. (All the days are blurring together)

This is the Outdoor Arena



The Barns






The Fresian Barn






The Warm-up Arena












A Couple of Gypsies


The Throughbred Barn




Monday, February 2, 2009

we're back

And there's a lot to catch up on. I thought I would post this:

You can see what the prelim round was at the ECR. I was in the back left corner, too far to see clearly. This Haf did pretty good. In the second jump her snaps popped on her top and that's why she's a little slow to finish :>).

I be back when I get caught up from my week away.