Far from Beauty.
Far from Beauty. Far from beauty - a wall of thorns obscures the city of gold. I dream its ancient gates are closed to the world, its hinges encrusted with rust and creepers. A jackdaw alights on the...
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I think I still have some. Will look for them, and post them in this thread in the morning.
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Wild Pony on Assateague Island On the 4th of July each year, the volunteer fire fighters of Chincoteague round up 50 or so of the ponies and auction them off to raise money to buy fire trucks, and...
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how many wild ponies on the island at any one time? this one seems fairly tame - you got quite close to it what do they eat - sand?
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the sand is rippled by the wind and sometimes it is hard to tell from a distance where the sand stops and the water starts. (i can't find any really good pictures...but am still looking..)
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a great picture! does it get cut off by the tides or is it a full-time island?
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it is a full fledged island, but it is also surrounded by a lot of bogs... The only connection though to the mainland is a bridge.. this whole area has been made a National Park...so it is somewhat...
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thata always a problem - weighing the needs of the many against the few its the same with National Parks in the UK
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they eat the grasses mostly usually several hundred ponies at any given time...used to be so many more but there were too many for the food supply and when I was about 10 years old they got weak and...
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some of the ponies will let you pet them, but they give no warning before they bite... because they eat dead stuff from the ocean, they are not opposed to a taste of flesh now and again... I'm not...
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Have you ever heard of manos? they are a soft shell clam that live in the sand. they extend a meaty snout of their shell and that makes bubbles in the sand...that is how you can find them... they are...
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dear me - fleshing eating cannibal ponies - and you say I write horrific things... did he get his bit of shoulder back? yes there are thinks like that in the sand in the UK and here in Thailand you...
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ohh, I could live on fruit and soup and seafood!!! The young boy has grown into a man. He is close to 40 now (i'd have to do some figuring to come up with his exact age : ) and still has an...
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i was almost bitten by a horse when i was about 12 but i drew back in time i dont know why people like the brutes!
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they really aren't very smart animals! I love them though because of their velvet noses... on a day when the world seems cold and distant, a walk out to the pasture, and a snuffle in the hand from the...
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Willow, Because I now live 500 miles from Assateague, and because I was relying on memory for the 'facts' I googled to be sure that it is the same. I found there are a few changes. They now have...
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I am highly irritated that they manage the ponies so closely. It is pretty much a given, that is done not to protect the ponies, but to protect the tourists. Disgusting!!!
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I heard about Mind the Bird (a reference to Mind that Pige0n! from Whacky Races??) on the radio my aunties lived near he Grand National Track in Aintree the horse that nearly bit me was in one of the...
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I had not thought of the Whacky Races. but you just might be right!! : )
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An apocalyptic vision this; puts me in mind of the film, I am legend. Think Id rather shuffle off to my reserved cloud rather than hang around in such a mess. Then again, hope springs eternal and God...
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