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Penny's first completely tackless ride with Cora (we've always had Cora on a lead rope for Penny's previous rides).

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time to go inside

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clouded yellow on henbit, a nice field, texas yellowstar and greenthread, antelope horn milkweed, old plainsman, and that feeling you get when your mule's next step might cost you hundreds of dollars

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A fascinating creature, fuligo septica, a slime mold, in several different forms: 1) the fruiting body; 2) a fruiting body which has adorned itself with a straggler daisy (slime molds have a refined aesthetic sense); 3) a fruiting body that has been disturbed (and which has likely already released its spores); and 4) the same disturbed body reverting to its more mobile, slug-like form as it returns back to the soil.

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greenthread, variegated frittilary on greenthread, Cora after her second molar extraction (she did really well)

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We had some rain last night. Winnie was spotless when I arrived but got into the spirit a little later; Cora after a couple hours of de-mudding; the beach sunflower in the arena; and a Texas dandelion, aka desert chicory.

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snail, yellow star-thistle, dew-bejewelled horehound, Winnie and Cora, star milkvine, beach sunflower, and me and Cora

(I'm tempted to rescue the sunflower from the arena before the horses stomp it)

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a question mark

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honeybee on horehound, monarch on milkweed, mimosa

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star milkvine, antelope horn milkweed, Cora, and a ladybug at an aphid bar

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a lovely April Fool's Day walk at the river with Bren