Horses In An Abingdon, Virginia Pasture Field

As the Virginia Creeper Trail makes its way from Abingdon, Virginia to Whitetop Station, it passes plenty of beautiful scenery along the way. In several places, the scenery includes pasture fields filled with farm animals and horses. Today's picture features horses grazing just inside the Abingdon town limits.

I first saw the horses in this particular field a couple of years ago while our family was out enjoying a walk on the trail. After I began doing the "Picture Of The Day" segment for RLROUSE.COM I decided to go back and take a picture of the horses. A few months ago I started walking down the trail, camera in hand, hoping to get the same wonderful view of them that we had enjoyed that first time. Much to my dismay, the horses weren't there...

So I tried again a few days later, but once again the pasture field held nothing but cows. Over the course of the next several months I went back at least a dozen times, but I was disappointed on every occasion. I came to the sad conclusion that those beautiful horses had apparently been sold or moved to a place where they could no longer be seen from the trail. I had all but given up on finding them.

Well, a few days ago I purchased a new camera. This morning I decided to go for a walk and try it out - to put it through its paces and see what kind of pictures I could take with it. Cheria wanted to go along, so off we went down the Virginia Creeper Trail...bound and determined to find those horses. And as so many times before, there was nothing to be found out in that field except for a few cows.

Since I had already taken a few great shots, I was ready to just turn around and go home - but Cheria said we should walk a bit further. After we had walked another two hundred yards or so I once again suggested that we go back, and once again she insisted that we walk a bit further - at least around the next bend.

We rounded the curve and there stood the horses...in the very same spot they had been the first time we saw them. I just stood there with egg on my face because it was quite obvious that I had failed to walk far enough down the trail on each of my previous outings. But as they say, all's well that end's well! I finally got my picture even if it did take a dozen and one tries.

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