Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: horse

Both Grace and McWhorter Highways are near the local Amish colony, which perhaps explains the unexpectedly large number of stables I found on this excursion. Or perhaps it's just a little colony of horse people.... This stable's on McWhorter. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366 Snaps project discussion and stats for November 22 .

And a neat fence, which features more obsolete farm equipment than some good museums. Up the hill from Webber Dam in Ionia County, Michigan.

Sculpture by James Oleson. Hastings, Michigan

Sculpture by James Oleson. Hastings, Michigan

Sculpture by James Oleson. Hastings, Michigan

Hastings, Michigan. I trust this sculpture has a name and an artist, but found no obvious sign at the site. If someone knows, please fill in the missing details. Thanks. It's Gaze II by James Oleson. Some details in the links in the comments, below. Hastings' central business district is full of sculptures, but I really don't know any details. Hastings is a town I travel through, not a town I visit--and the sculptures are downtown, which my route through town skirts.

Mackinac Island's in the strait which connects Lake Huron with Lake Michigan. It's been a tourist desitination about as long as there've been white settlers in Michigan. The island was fortified in the eighteenth century, was a national park from 1875 through 1895, and has been a Michigan state park for well over a century. Horseless carriages were banned about the time they became common, and the island's roads are populated by horses, carriages, and bicycles. So the place has a Victorian look and feel, and enough authentic history to keep a tourist busy just wandering from site to site. But the real attraction is the scenery; it's a wonderful place. This photo's from the Lilac Festival Parade, which occurred in the rain on June 18 this year. It's really like most small-town parades, except there were more tourists. And no fire trucks.

Mother's day, 2000 at Grand Rapids, Michigan: The women in my life get their first view of Nina Akamu's sculpture Leonardo's Horse , which was quite newly installed in the Sculpture Garden at Meijer Gardens at that time. Akamu's horse was based on plans and drawings Leonardo da Vinci completed for a commission he never built. It was chilly, there was a crowd up close to the display, and we'd really come to view the butterflies . So we settled for this distant view. Camera: Nikon N90s. As is sometimes the case, this scan suffers a bit because of the fast film I was using that day.

I was out on my bike the other day and found this horse wandering around in the field. I like the framing and color better on this picture, but the other shows the horse more plainly.

I was out on my bike the other day and found this horse wandering around in the field. I like the other photo better, but the horse is more plain in this one.

Both Grace and McWhorter Highways are near the local Amish colony, which perhaps explains the unexpectedly large number of stables I found on this excursion. Or perhaps it's just a little colony of horse people.... This stable's on McWhorter. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366 Snaps project discussion and stats for November 22 .