Breaking the rule with horse tails

These beautiful horses were in the park waiting for their owner to harness them to pull a wagon in the Christmas Parade.  One of the "rules" in photography is don't shoot butt shots, but get the twinkle in the animals eye. Well leave it to a photography judge in a show when he awarded 1st place to a group of geese on a frozen lake all facing away from the photographer and wind.

We had another nice, non wind day and I manage to get more miles on my bike and found these in Frontier Park. This was about 2:30 and the Parade started at 5:30.

 First horse getting his harness and below two of the 4 almost done. Watching the process I realized that it a a very intricate process. There is another cowboy between the 1st and 2nd horse.

Locked in bear

This is a safe bear - he's locked in and oh, he's wooden. Not fond of bears since one rocked my rig, and broke a table in the middle of the night. Here are two views of the gate at the Indian Village in Frontier Park, Cheyenne.

Fallen

Here are fallen aspen leaves on a fallen aspen trunk,

Snowmen all in a row

It's official, Christmas season has started. Or maybe you thought it started early last fall when the Christmas decorations started showing up in the stores. I saw these cute snowmen at Kohl's while picking up ONE gift, one store, on Black Friday. Couldn't handle shopping any longer. But the $50 that I saved was worth the 25 minute line waiting for check out.

Leaf waiting for the next wind gust

A aspen leaf that was caught by the pine tree on it's was down to the ground. This leaf has seen better days.

Road to Silver Jack

This was taken along the road to Silver Jack Reservoir which was a beautiful drive. And again the sky was not cooperating for photography. This is south west of Blue Mesa and South east of Montrose CO.

The two gossips

Or maybe one is a democrat and one is a republican arguing over the state of the country. Okay, now you can laugh and these two birds were also taken at the Bath Nursery a couple of years ago.