A beautiful horseback ride through Bedford
The Sunday after Thanksgiving was a very beautiful day. In fact, it was perfect for a Bedford horseback ride. I invited my niece Kristina and my friends Muffin and Kathleen first to breakfast. I made light and airy popovers, farm-fresh scrambled eggs, homemade jams, and frothy cappuccinos. Then, we mounted our horses and went off to ride a great distance on the Beford Riding Lane Association trails. Please enjoy these photos taken on that spectacular ride!
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- Here I am atop Rutger and my niece, Kristina, getting comfortable on Rinze.
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- Three of my Friesians and two of Muffin’s ponies participated. Here is Betsy on Ramon, Muffin on Bryan, and Kathleen on Biscuit.
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- Some of the fields we rode over were still verdant and tasty – all the horses took time to munch on the grass.
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- Bryan, Muffin’s horse, was feisty and fun – a little Irish pony.
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- Rinze especially liked the ‘Irish’ garden field down Upper Hook Road.
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- The landscape was so beautiful and we all took time to stop and admire.
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- In the middle of nowhere is a beautiful walled garden – I’ve always wondered what was planted there in years gone by.
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- The stone walls, although a bit ramshackle, are still magnificent.
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- The autumnal grasses and shrubs were colorful and striking.
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- Some areas of the woods were covered in bright green, velvety mosses, which I love.
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- We rode around the walled garden – a most romantic landscape.
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- The walls are made of large lichen covered stones, so very carefully placed, long ago.
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- Hillocks of tall grasses have taken over whatever once was planted here – I can imagine great perennial borders, or perhaps a decorative vegetable garden? Nowadays very little would survive the voracious deer population.
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- Muffin and Kathleen ambling by
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- Ramon, Rinze, and Rutger ambling by
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