Dressage: Letter Perfect

Jamie; 23-year-old FEI dressage rider from California, currently attending Life West Chiropractic College. 13-year-old Hanoverian gelding Winzalot (Winny), 2014 USDF Intermediate 1 Horse of the Year, 2013 NAJYRC Young Rider team gold and double silver medalist, 2010 NAJYRC Junior double gold medalist. Currently showing in the U25 Grand Prix division for the 2017 season. See link for my health/fitness blog. Ask me or talk to me about anything!

[scarlettjane22]

Carina Maiwald • Photographer

Spanish Horse Boutique

[glamorousequestrian]

🇦🇺 Happy Australia Day 🇦🇺

[triflingthing]

how to spend a snowy evening

[veverybeautiful-deactivated2018]

[lesbeauxchevaux]

Autumn rides 🍁🍃🍂 (at Pusztazámor, Pest, Hungary)

[lifelongequestrian]

Likes | Tumblr on We Heart It.

[scarlettjane22]

Estilo

Sons of the Wind - Lusitano Farm

[showjumpingfangirl]

Winter Equestrian Festival 2018 McLain Ward& HH Gigi’s Girl

©Meghan Basco; source:noellefloyd.com on Facebook

[beeareayedee]

[lehorse]

How not to fall off lesson number one:

[dressagecow]

What sorcery is this

[letterperfectmxk]

Hahah this is amazing

[visualizedmemories]

“Icelandic horses”

[rockhardgeologist]

A prodigy

[sindri42]

You missed the best part. They weren’t even their sheep. This good pupper gathered up a bunch of random sheep it found somewhere on the countryside and brought them home for its human.

[coolsaddad-blog]

Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not fucking blue.

[feels-for-the-fictional]

I have been waiting for this post all my life.

[marzipanandminutiae]

They are indeed purple, But one thing you’ve missed: The concept of “purple” Didn’t always exist.

Some cultures lack names For a color, you see. Hence good old Homer And his “wine-dark sea.”

A usage so quaint, A phrasing so old, For verses of romance Is sheer fucking gold.

So roses are red. Violets once were called blue. I’m hugely pedantic But what else is new?

[ineptshieldmaid]

My friend you’re not wrong About Homer’s wine-ey sea! Colours are a matter Of cultural contingency;

Words are in flux And meanings they drift But the word purple You’ve given short shrift.

The concept of purple, My friends, is old And refers to a pigment once precious as gold.

By crushing up molluscs From the wine-dark sea You make a dye: Imperial decree

Meant that in Rome, to wear purpura was a privilege reserved

For only the emperor!

The word ‘purple’, for clothes so fancy, Entered English By the ninth century

.

Why then are voilets Not purple in song? The dye from this mollusc, known for so long

Is almost magenta; More red than blue. The concept of purple is old, and yet new.

The dye is red, So this might be true: Roses are purple And violets are blue

.

[squeeful]

While this song makes me merry, Tyrian purple dyes many a hue From magenta to berry And a true purple too.

But fun as it is to watch this poetic race The answer is staring you right in the face: Roses are red and violets are blue Because nothing fucking rhymes with purple.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

[young-il-long-kiyoshi]

IT GOT SO MUCH BETTER.

[farrentalon]

My reaction, only with coffee.

[thetiredpianist]

Hang on, need to send this to my literature prof

[train-to-win-deactivated2016090]

And this jump..that is the most detailed and creative jump I think I’ve ever seen. SO cool!

Photo not mine.

[notorious-lie]

[sharkfish]

“What it’s like is a battle. A mess of horses and men and blood. It’s the surf in your face, the deadly magic of November on your skin, the Scorpio drums in the place of your heartbeat. It’s speed, if you’re lucky. It’s life and it’s death or it’s both, and there’s nothing like it.”

[atasteofsunshineandwhiskey]

[stirrup--studies-deactivated202]

fabulous