The horse in this painting was patiently waiting to be lead to the show ring at the Fiesta Midwest Andalusian show. As her decorative bridle rosette ribbons twirled in the breeze, I had to wonder what was swirling through her mind.

Anyone who owns horses knows they are great thinkers. It seems mine are usually thinking, 'What's for supper" or something food related. But Sorpresa has proven to be a deep thinker and planner. Usually after schooling her in our arena, which is located on the one flat area of our property that is NOT in the front yard, I let her nibble her way through four different gates, from the arena through a pasture through the small square pen and out into the backyard. Getting to snack on yard grass is her reward for a job well done. On this particular day, she'd been plotting. She'd noticed that Echo, who I'd ridden the day before got to snack in the side yard -- rather than the backyard. Obviously Sorpresa decided this was not fair, because when I freed her in the arena after riding her the following day, she bolted - like a streak of lightning - up the hill through the pasture and square pen, through the back yard to the side yard, and made a sliding stop -- skidding to an abrupt halt-- making divets with her knee and her forehead -- in the exact spot Echo had been grazing, and quickly proceeded to start eating. I think she'd used her imagination to plan her flight.

I had to use my muscles to walk her all the way down to the pasture and give her a little training session on how to walk through a gate. She was extremely hyper, and tried a couple of times to bolt out the open gate. Then I had to use my imagination to come up with a new procedure for ending a lesson with a reward. Here it is: she is lead up to the barn and gets tied for a few minutes after each lesson before getting to munch on lawn grass.

Henry David Thoreau wrote, "The world is but a canvas to our imagination." May your imagination paint beautiful thoughts!

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