"Their land is full of horses, there is no limit to their chariots." - Isaiah
"In the winds of change, comes a new direction...."
"Change your thoughts - change your world..." N. Vincent Peale
"Our choice of partners is perhaps the clearest single statement of our choice of values" W. Farrell
"Nobility without conceit, friendship without envy, beauty without vanity - a willing servant, yet no slave."
"The Horse is God's gift to Man" - Arabian proverb
"God first made Man. He thought better of it & made Woman. When He got time, He made the Horse, which has the courage & spirit of Man & the beauty & grace of a Woman" - Brazilian saying
"And God took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it & created the Horse" - Bedouin Legend
Halloween at Bellissima Farms
Mare w/ natural birthed colt & adopted filly
BRAVO! Peruvian Paso Equitherapy
"All 4 work together? You're kidding, right?"
"Who buys a horse - buys care" - Spanish proverb.
"What the colt learns in youth - he continues in old age " - French proverb
"Horses are not tamed by whips or blows. The strength of 10 men is not so strong as a single strike of the hoof; the experience of 10 men is not enough, for this is the unexpected, the unpredictable." - B. Markham
"I'd horsewhip you....if I had a horse!" - Groucho Marx
"Horse, thou art truly a creature without equal , for thou fliest without wings & conquerest without a sword" - Koran
"Once you have heard the meadowlark & caught the scent of fresh earth, peace cannot escape you"
"Four things greater than all things are Women & Horses & Power & War" -Rudyard Kipling
"The light of the warrior will continue in his progeny"
Apricot & white powder puff
"A Horse is worth more than riches" - Spanish proverb
"A bad tempered man will never make a good tempered horse" - Anna Sewell - Black Beauty
"Anything forced & misunderstood can never be beautiful. And to quote the words of Simon: If a dancer was forced to dance by whips & spikes, he would be no more beautiful than a horse trained under similar conditions." - Xenophon 400 B.C.
Apricot & white powder puff
Pink skin, chocolate spots hairy hairless
"Relationships are mirrors of ourselves" -
L.L. Hay
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh" - WH Auden
Natural birthed colt w/ adopted filly
Tribute to American soldiers
A pony is a childhood dream - a horse, an adult treasure........
Welcome to Bellissima Farms
"A Horse is a thing of such beauty - none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor" - Xenophan
"If you can learn from hard knocks, then you can also learn from soft touches" - C. Kenmore
Bellissima Farms Exhibition Barn
If your horses says no, you either asked the wrong question or asked the question wrong
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only w/ what you are expecting to give -- which is everything" - K. Hepburn
Hairy hairless - pink skin, slate spots, black tipping
"Do not rely on gestures or outer appearances as an indication of the love that people have for you . Rely instead on the feeling of love that exists between you." - S. Roman
Pink skin, slate spots Hairy Hairless
Pink skin, slate spots Hairless
Bellissima Farms Exhibition Show Front
Black & white hairy hairless
Slate hairless w/ apricot fringe
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung
Powder puff - white w/ black tipping
Black & white powder puff
"Every time you ride, you are eithere teaching or un-teaching your horse." - G. Wright
Blue eyed Chinese Cresteds
"...when I looked at Life from the saddle & was as near to Heaven as it was possible to be" - Countess of Warwick - Discretions
"The natives had never seen such Horses up to this time & thought the Horse & rider were all one animal" - B. Diaz del Castillo - True History of the Conquest of New Spain
"There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing." - Will Rogers
Slate skin, black fringe Hairless
"A good horse should seldom be spurred" - T. Fuller
"When God created the Horse, He said to the magnificent creature,"I have made thee as no other. All the treasures of earth lie between they eyes. Thous shall carry my friends upon they back. They saddle shall be the seat of prayers to me. And thou fly without wings, & conquer without any sword. O Horse" - The Koran
"We attract hearts by the qualities we display, we retain them by the qualities we possess" Jean Baptiste A. Suard
"Among those who I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh" - W. Auden
Hanging in the historic district
Pink skin, slate spots Hairy Hairless
"I have thought that to breed a noble horse is to share w/ God in one of His mysteries, as well as one of His delights." - T. Lea
"To practice equestrian art is to establish a conversation on a higher level w/ the horse; a dialogue of courtesy & finesse" - N. Oliveira
Black & white powder puff one week of age
"He doth nothing but talk of his horse." - Merchant of Venice
Pink skin, brown nose & spots - green eyes, white fringe - Hairy hairless
White powder puff - black & apricot spots 6 weeks of age
It's an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words ...
"Of all creatures, the Horse is the noblest." - G. Markham
Hairy hairless - client family
Hairy hairless - client family
Newborn Hairless
Pink skin, slate spots, white fringe
"To be loved by ahorse, or any animal, should fill us w/ awe - for we have not deserved it." - M. Garretty
Client family - Hairy hairless
Pink body, apricot/black spots - Hairy Hairless
Natural born son & adopted daughter
"The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears" - Arabian proverb
"Gypsy gold does not chink & glitter. It gleams in the sun & neighs in the dark." - Gypsy saying
"There is no secret so close as that between a rider & his horse." - R.S. Surtees
Scottsdale AZ Saddle Bags
Most every birth is personally attended ...
McDowell Mountains., Arizona