That is just so cool. I miss seeing the wild horses.

So cool!

They're adorable. Thanks for the pictures.

beautiful!

They look very healthy.

Poetical in the marshes.

Horsey relatives, family friends.

Pick out the genetic markers

Black socks on legs

White stars on foreheads

As they gallop their hooves

Are a family band

Horses have their own magical language with which they communicate. Just watch them standing and exchanging their entire history. You make me miss my ponies and love them all more.

I'm convinced I was, or will be, a pony in a past or future life.

then you need to learn to whiney! ask sheldon how...

You took them on your lunch break? Lucky you! Is Misty, of
Chingotegue (that's gotta be totally wrong spelling) anywhere
near?
I remember a long ago full moon night walking a country lane with friends in Ohio, admiring the fireflies. We passed by a pasture and a group of ponies came gliding over to the fence to check us out, and, like your ponies, were gone a moment later.
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the Chinqueteague ponies are a different herd, but the same type of ponies.

Some people insist they are horses, but I use the colloquial "pony" because of their relative size.

Love the primitive markings (tiger stripes on legs, dun colour). My "El Tigre" looks very similar.

Beautiful pictures! Is the herd very big? This is just so awesome, and people can just park and walk to see them?
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I've never seen these ponies in person so thank you for the pics. The manes in the second one--beautiful.

Way cool!

Very nice.

Now I'm jealous of you, Priddy. Anytime you'd like to post pony pictures, I'm more than happy to admire, rate and comment. They're gorgeous!

what a wonderful beautiful experience! i just realized that you are in Beaufort - when i was a child, my father's mother and her husband lived in Newport and i always loved when we visited them. we had relatives that lived on the Sound and we would go crabbing, and sometimes get to go out on a boat to the barrier islands. and i was always clamoring to go to the Maritime Museum to see all the stuff about Blackbeard. it was magical for me as a child.

and i love flouncing pony butts!

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Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

:) you live and work in a beautiful area

Yes! This brought all of my Misty (and Stormy, her foal) memories that were beloved companions (in the books anyway) of my childhood. Got a huge lump in my throat.

Priddy, I grew up devouring Marguerite Henry books.

You have slain me.

Verbal - you too?! I still have some Marguerite Henry (old hardcover library-sale copies) on my bookshelves...

Don't see this much in the city. Thanks.

Love the pictures, Elizabeth. =o) Used to have a horse before going to college. I miss him, but not the dust and flies and cost involved with caring for him.

Ah George Sand and Kellylark, what memories are invoked by the name Marguerite Henry! =o) I read the covers right off her books. What a weird coincidence that I should be thinking of King of the Wind while driving home, tonight. And I loved Wesley Dennis' illustrations even though I was perpetually frustrated at not being able to make the horses I drew look like the ones he drew.