A Bright Spot

The snow has melted and there are just a few little ice cubes floating around in the horses' water trough, melting away with help from the heater and temperatures that are in the 40s.

We are back to damp and gloomy days, sometimes with a bit of fog. Tim is back in town and feeding hay daily, but the horses still wander the pastures and forage.

Abby's winter coat is so beautiful - she's a varnish roan Appaloosa, and so her pattern changes as she sheds out/grows in her summer and winter coats.

 Some spots never change, like that big one on her cheek. (A great place to plant a kiss.)

Those two black spots on her upper lip don't change, either. (Apparently neither does sticking out her tongue when I am photographing her, too!) But that roaning in her coat comes and goes without any discernible pattern, year after year.

Abby is definitely a bright spot on these chilly late fall days.