Sequim Daily Photo

The cowboys and -girls who participate in rodeos give us a glimpse of the beauty of horse and human partnerships when they ride — in both riding events and in watching the support riders as they follow participants in events like bareback and bull riding.  The horses and riders are an elegant team that we don’t often get to see in this kind of action. In barrel racing riders and horses race full speed in a cloverleaf pattern around three barrels and then sprint out of the arena.  

Barrel racing is performed on American Quarter Horses. Riders trip an electronic eye as they enter and leave the arena, so the race is fast from start to finish. This race lasted just over 17 seconds.

The horses are well trained and it’s fascinating to see their focus mirror that of their riders as they go through their paces in the race.

The Clallam County Fair offers a rodeo on two different days. Tomorrow: Bull Riding.

These two goats are residents at Five Acre School. They are friendly and, I suspect, a little lonely as they wait for children to come back to school again and give them snacks. The school is located next to the Dungeness Recreation Area and students are often taken out onto the trails as part of their school day. We’ve also seen children getting horseback riding lessons and there’s a talented marimba band that performs publicly. Makes my old grammar school seem very dull by comparison.

This toad has been in my garden for about a week now.  Very feisty and quick.  I hope it sticks around for a while.

Black Rabbit Farm

We had to go to Home Depot for something over the weekend and I saw this dog in this truck and it started a conversation between my husband and I about when is it too hot for a dog to be left in a vehicle.  So I thought I’d see what you guys thought.  It was 71 degrees out, slight breeze.   What do you think, too hot or okay?

Everywhere you go in Sequim you see dogs in vehicles, it’s definitely a dog-friendly town…but I think this was the first time I’ve seen a load of goats in one.  This was in the Safeway parking lot.