A fearless 2-month old donkey and a bucking horse!

Emmy Lou is about 2 months old in these images.  She brings a lot of joy to The Smith Ranch.  She is fearless and isn't a least bit afraid of Ace, the boss of the pasture!  These images were taken after the animals were let out to roam the entire pasture.  This is a totally new experience for Emmy Lou. In the second image shown, she is in the lead with her mom Sally behind her.  Ace is happy as always to be let out and you can see him bucking in the images below.  Enjoy!

Horsing around

I was petting Reese Cup at the fence when Ace who is the boss of the pasture came up.  Reese turned to Ace and it looked like she was saying, "You're still the boss."  They get along so much better now than they used to.  Thank God for rain this season as they have been having their fill of pasture grass.  They look so strong and muscular!  Reese Cup's coat turned a pretty brown color this summer. I looked up her color and it officially called "dark bay."

 The image below was actually the first shot taken but I wanted to put the intimate one first.  Reese Cup saw me and decided to come over to me.

 Here she is hoping I had a treat but instead gets a closeup portrait taken.  She is being distracted as right after this shot she gallops over to our new neighbors who have two horses.

 She is galloping over to the neighbors next door to spend time with their horses.

Ace decides to join her.  Here he is starting to trot.

 Ace is galloping over now.  If you look closely, you can see Reese communicating with the neighbor's horse in the top center of this image below.

We're free!

"We're free!"  That's how our two horses and four donkeys looked like when we let them out into the pasture after they had been confined to a few acres for a few months while my husband moved the fence closer to our entry road (see first photo below),  The photos below are my favorites that were taken while riding the tractor and following them around the pasture.  To see a slideshow of all of the photos, click here.  Enjoy!