Picture of the day - August 1, 2006

Uncle Jerry's Horse

Cheria's Uncle Jerry doesn't get around as well as he used to, so he spends a lot of time out on his front porch when the weather is nice. These days, one of his favorite activities is watching the deer and horses graze in the field across the road from his house. He often sits there on the porch enjoying a cool evening breeze, binoculars in hand, eagerly waiting for the animals to arrive on the scene. Cheria and I visited Uncle Jerry and Aunt Eleanor for a while yesterday evening. We had been sitting with them on their spacious front porch and talking for a while when a deer ambled out of the woods and began grazing beside a horse, and before long another one came into view. The two deer and the horse spent several minutes eating the tall grass while Jerry studied them intently through his binoculars. When the sun began to sink low in the sky, Cheria and I bid our wonderful hosts goodbye and got up to leave. Before we could get to our car, the horse had walked right up to the fence beside the road and began nodding it's head. I guess it was telling us goodbye just like Jerry and Eleanor had done. Without a thorough understanding of horse psychology its pretty hard to tell what he was up to. But he did seem like a friendly fellow, so I walked over and took his picture...right after he stopped nodding and posed for me. Uncle Jerry enjoys watching the animals frolic around, and there seems to be plenty of them around to watch. And one of them is now a Picture Of The Day. Picture Of The Day Homepage | Submit a photo Interesting Articles