Lounge Lizards

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico ~ February 4, 2006

Hotel Open-air Cafe and Lounge

Oh, and don't miss the red horse near the ceiling.

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Blue Horse in Portland

Portland, Oregon ~ April 18, 2010

Northwest 23rd Street

This just goes to show that all spotted ponies are not Appaloosas.

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Chess, Anyone? Yea or Neigh?

Maryhill, Washington ~ October 5, 2003

Maryhill Museum of Art

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The Marker Says "Horse"

San Diego, California ~ November 5, 2009

San Diego Zoo

Zoos are no longer just about showing off captive animals, but the better ones are about conservation and also about education. Near the elephants is a display of Pleistocene paleontology, and one of the outdoor displays features this model horse skull, intended to appear as it might have been buried in the earth. Here the horse has been used as an example, and it's a good choice. The horse is one of the animals whose evolution is well known thanks to several circumstances. Horses lived in herds on fairly dry plains, and conditions were right throughout most of their long history for fossils to be created from their skeletons. Animals such as the tapir, which lived singly or in smaller groups and died in areas where decay was faster and the earth less ready to preserve the remains, have left less for scientists to study.

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Horse, Rider, and Rider

New York ~ May 5, 2009

In front of the American Museum of Natural History

Which part of this sculpture was unplanned by the artist?

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White Horse

Oxford, England ~ February 18, 2010

52 Broad Street

I'm continuing "England Week" here and on Tapirgal's Daily Image. I thought of cropping this photo to give it a cleaner look, but I absolutely love all of the window details and the lamp in the lower right. So, please bear with the clutter and enjoy the details. The White Horse is across the street from the famous Sheldonian Theatre. We were on our way to the Ashmolean Museum (on a mission, and it was closing soon) and we didn't go inside the White Horse. Too bad, it sounds like a great pub. Every inch of Oxford was a photo, and every inch was beckoning.

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A Good Horse

Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris ~ October 15, 2008

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