2016 Point Arena Pinto Calendar

YIPPEE Sweetie and the Point Arena Pintos are very happy to announce that their 2016 Calendar has arrived and is NOW for sale at Four Eyed Frog Books in Gualala, CA. Or you can email me to order from me directly at pa@photographycreated.com. 

We wish you a very Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year! 

It's A Girl!

Polka Dot had her foal on July 5th. She is a lovely frisky black and white filly and we have named her Splash. She is a doll and very curious...today is the first time she really let me touch her and she was very interested in the alpha squares and took some shavings off my fingers. She has also nibbled at the bowl's rim.

From day one Suki has been Splash's protector ( as well as Miss Moonbeam's). She has very similar markings as Suki (they are brother and sister) but her markings remind us of a giraff!

My favorite picture

This photo and other Splash and pinto images are for sale as greeting cards at the Four Eyed Frog Bookstore in Gualala or you can order them from me at pa@photographycreated.com

Update

It has been a few months since I have posted. My plan is/was to post more frequently but it has been an exceptionally busy time on many fronts.

The exciting news is that we have a new filly and the sadder news is that Little One was kicked out of the herd. Fortunately he has been found and is now being tended to.
The pintos in general have taken awhile to adjust to spending time over here and prefer to be over at their old home. Fortunately they have a guardian angel in our new neighbor who lets them be over on his land. Periodically I close the gate between the 2 properties so that they can acclimate to being here. Before the birth of the new filly the wind and the pintos managed to push open the gate and they spent almost 2 weeks at their old home. They finally started coming back here for treats after the filly was stronger.
Often we went over to check on everyone and to take photos. I am working on the pinto calendar for 2011 and a pinto book - many images that were taken during this time will be in them.
The horses were here for breakfast today and after they ate they ALL took a nap!

The arrow is pointing at the small filly, . On her left is her Mama, above the filly is Polka Dot and on the left is Thunder. Far right is Suki and far left are Sweetie and Lady.

Be sure to see the two new posts below about the new filly and Little One.

Feeding Time!

For the past three days the horses have calmed down enough that they decided it was time for them to go through the gate from next door and come up to get food. I feed them at the bench so they are waiting for me to show up. They have been here 2 times before since the fence was built but they weren't too happy about being fenced in here. Today they have been around all day.

There are alfalfa squares soaking in water in the bowl. Suki and Lady, the older mare, both can eat out of the bowl. It wasn't until today that Sweetie and Little One became interested in the bowl, which I am excited about since I eventually want to feed them some grain which they will have to eat out of a container.

Our wonderful neighbor

We received an unexpected and delightfu suprise. We are very fortunate and grateful that the new owners of the land next door loves the pintos! This is the land that the pintos have lived on all of their lives. The owners could not take responsibility for them as they live in Southern Californa and will only be up here occasionally. He is fixing his fence (same wonderful crew who built ours) so the horses can still roam on his land from time to time. This is a great news for the locals who love seeing these horses from the highway and consider them the local celebreties!
We have put in a gate between the 2 properties so they can go back and forth at times. Here you can get a better view of the field fence.

Here you can see the horses grazing at our neighbors. It has been tricky to get them over here because  there has been so much acitivity the past weeks with the building of fences on both properties. They have needed a period of adjustment to all the changes. The above post will show images of the pintos finally coming back up to our place for food.

Pinto Images for Sale at Local Art Show

For those of you who live in the Point Arena Area, there is a Flower Power celebration in town this week-end. The local no name gallery, which is between the Redwood Credit Union and the purple house (has a flower power sign on front of the building) will have a show of local artists and I will be there selling pinto photographs,  pinto cards, and the last of the pinto 2010 calendars. The hours are Friday 5:00-7:00pm; Saturday and Sunday 12:00-4:00pm. Hope to see you there!

The Fence and Update on the Pintos

I am now the proud owner, actually I don't like that word, the new guardian of the 7 wild pintos!  My neighbor where the horses lived, had to sell his land and  his only choices for the pintos was to find them a new home right away or they would have had to go to auction.
Since the horses basically adopted me about a year ago (see older posts below), there was no way I was going to let them go to auction or leave this area. They have become the local celebrities of  Point Arena and I am touched by how many people care about these lovely animals.
As you can see from the above photo, the fence line is down between the two properties and we don't have any fencing on our property, so we need to build a fence to keep them safe from wandering around the neighborhood or getting onto the highway. I will be posting pictures of the fence as it is being built.
Presently, I never know when the horses will come over from the other side of the fence.  Sometimes every day and sometimes not for several days. While we were in the middle of the paper work transferring the horses to me, they showed up!  It is as if they knew!
Several local people have offered financial help and have given suggestions, for which the pintos and I are very grateful.  It is a large project and if there is anyone else who wishes to make a donation please email me at pa@photographycreated.com . Any amount is appreciated and because we are not a foundation, your donations will not be tax decutible.  You can also purchase pinto cards at my website http://www.photographycreated.com/ the profits from these cards goes towards the pintos care.

Rainy Pintos

There have been a lot of storms here the past week and so the pintos did not come up as often as usual. Several days ago they were here and I fed them carrots and alpha squares in the rain. Suddenly it began to hail and I was laughing and they were eating as fast as they could.
They came up again this morning in the drizzle and I fed them. Several hours later I went out to photograph them for this blog and they obliged by lining up.
Notice how big Suki is getting! He is now 6 months old.
You will notice an overturned bench in the left hand corner - this is where I feed them. They often knock the bench over after being fed or if I am not around, they are disappointed that I have not been out to give them their treats.
We hope to evenutally build a corral around this bench so we can start taking better care of them. First we have to be sure we can adopt them and then raise money to build the corral, fence the land, and have them seen by a vet.