Cadentia Sidera

I'm glad this brought back happy memories. Right now it's -15 C and no snow, so we have all the cold and none of the fun. :( Thank you for commenting. *Lobs a virtual snowball your way*

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cymbeline.livejournal.com

Brrrr!!! And I was just complaining that 50 degrees was cold!

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50 degrees! We sunbathe in 50 degree weather! Well not quite. But I wouldn't wear a coat at that temperature. We Canucks pride ourselves on our iron hides and imperviousness to bitter cold. Take what you can I guess. Ha!

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drbillbongo.livejournal.com

Very very pretty! The hut and the hills almost remind me of a hut I was years ago during my winter holidays. And it was lovely! Alas, there were no horses.

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Thank you. There is just a touch of my memories of Europe in this picture. I'm so glad it brought back memories. Furry horses are lovely, but one freezed one's fingers to non-functional icicles when riding in the winter!

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drbillbongo.livejournal.com

Oh yes, I suppose so! It's already freezingly cold in Germany at the moment, even when wearing gloves. One has to move his limbs in order not to turn into an ice cube. :)

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cymbeline.livejournal.com

This is adorable, I love the fuzzy quality to the horses coats and the texture of the clothing.

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Thank you so much. Here in Canada, horses spend far more time looking like this than those sleek, elegant creatures. I'm glad you like the textures here.

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cymbeline.livejournal.com

Furry Horses are so cute, I loved when my guys got all soft and fluffy for the winter. Made riding them a bit of a challenge as it took longer to cool them down properly.

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They are like big plushies in the winter. Oh I do remember walking and walking to dry out those long coats. When I moved to the US to a deserty area, it was August, and my poor horse was already diligently growing his Canadian Winter Coat--and we hit 100 degree F weather. Poor guy!

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geekmama.livejournal.com

What a charming scene! Much better than Currier and Ives. Love it!

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Yes, this one is lots of nice fluffy fun and mischief. I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Thank you.

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geekmama.livejournal.com

Somehow I was particularly impressed with the mountains and fir trees in the background. It's so exactly the way it looks. We used to vacation up in Northern Nevada every winter. So beautiful.

If it was earlier in the season I'd have begged you for permission to use this on a Christmas card! Beautiful work, as always.

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This is very like the Blue Mountains on the border of WA and OR states. You would be welcome to use this on a card--I guess you can get a head start on next year. :D I've got one other wintery picture I may post someday as well.

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OMG! LOL, this *does* look like the hill country of northeast Oregon! Years ago, my hubby and I wintered in Elgin, north of LaGrande, and man, we got SNOW! That was the only place I've ever been where full-sized barns got drifted completely over. LOL, and our dog we brought up there as a 3 month old pup didn't see dirt or water again until March! She actually barked in panic the first time she saw me walk through a puddle ... *G*

ANYhow, memories aside - I dearly love your fantastical drawings! The mix-and-match of places and cultures is such marvelous visual parody. LOL, and the horses look like all the northern Nevada horses around us now, too, fuzzy and furry.

I think the face of the youngster on the pony is my favorite - the glee of his grin is positively infectious. But the entire drawing is altogether marvelous! :-) Thanks for sharing!
Cheers ~

Erin

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Oh have I been through Elgin often and often. My husband and I backpack a lot in the Eagle Cap Wilderness of the Wallowa Mountains. In fact we got engaged on the top of Eagle Cap Mountain. The snow up there is amazing. We'd climb up one side of the roof of a house and ski down the other. And then the spruce trees would get so covered they'd lean enough that we'd snowshoe up them and leap off the tops. Such fun. I do miss that. I love the story of your puppy--what a shock spring must have been.

The youngster on the pony is actually a girl, although she'd be happy to be taken for a boy. Her name is Lilieta Roschatasescu. Needless to say she hates her first name and goes by Roscha. She is a character who figures in my first abortive attempt at a novel--great characters, not enough plot. So I draw them all the time.

Thank you for the lovely comment. I'm glad you liked this.

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Bloody Nora, it's RAINING like you would not believe, here! I had a nice chatty reply all typed up - and poof went my Internet for about an hour. Bleh ...

ANYhow, the main thing I meant to say was, don't give up on those characters of yours! :-) They may come back with a story *and* a plot when you least expect it. I had a group of characters whom I simply adored ... but I carried them around in my head and on scribbled heaps of paper for well over 10 years! Same as you, lack of a plot. Then 2 years ago my characters reappeared with a whole new, improved story ... and now I'm finishing final revisions, and intend to start submitting the manuscript after the first of the year. :-D

So keep entertaining Roscha and friends with your drawings ... One day those muses may pop back up with a simply brilliant story to tell you! :)
Cheers ~

Erin

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Oooh, and the guy in the back is riding with a hackamore bosal! *SQUEEE!*

~ Erin

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They're actually both in hackamores. *g* I always feel sorry for horses who have winter temperature bits stuck in their mouths, so hackamores, bosal and otherwise for my fantasy winter horses. I remember freezing my fingers so much I couldn't undo my horse's tack when we got home.

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Oh, gad! I would *never* put a cold bit in a horse's mouth! *wince*

Hubby and I have had to do a lot of cold-weather riding for ranches or hunting camps, but we and the other guys *always* kept our bits indoors at night, and made sure to keep them warm, or warm them up, before putting them in the poor horses' mouths. Otherwise, that's a good way to teach a horse to become hard to bridle .... :-s

*pets Honorat's cute fuzzy fantasy horses* Nice fellows, I'm glad Honorat loves you and doesn't want you with icky cold metal in your mouths. ;-)
Cheers ~

Erin

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sparky-darky.livejournal.com

That's my pony in the background! Well, he's the same colour and just as hairy, anyway ^^ I love riding in the snow, though you do tend to freeze into one position, and dismounting becomes quite difficult!

I love old-fashioned seasonal art, and this is no exception. Victorian-esque clothing, pine trees, more snow than you can shake a stick at... beautiful. This reminds me of photos my friend showed me when she went skiing in the Alps-- so peaceful and far away from civilisation.

This cheered me up after hearing that we won't get any snow for Christmas yet again. Thanks! :)

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I draw spotty ponies fairly regularly, my revolt against the white and black stallions of fantasy I guess. All one's joints do rather seize up in cold weather riding.

I'm glad you like my snowy scene. Things are looking like we might have a brown Christmas here too. If it's going to be this cold it should at least be pretty white in my opinion. Alas, nature doesn't listen to me.

I hope your holidays are cheerful in spite of the weather. Thank you to you too.

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Hey, I somehow missed seeing this... It's lovely!! Wonderfully done, I love all the details. And the horses (I used to spend hours and hours drawing horses when I was a kid, they are such beautiful animals). :-) Thanks for sharing! :-)

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Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed this. Do you still draw horses? I must have used up acres of trees drawing them. I still do. They are beautiful.

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I think the last time I drew a horse was...maybe...for Emmett a long time ago and I can't even remember why. Or maybe not, maybe it was even before he was born. Needless to say, I haven't drawn anything in years, though I used to a lot as kid - that and reading, since my parents didn't let us (my two sisters and me) watch TV (for which I am so very grateful to them). I don't think I really have any talent for it, though I do appreciate the work of people who do! :-)

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If you did once, you can learn. I used to teach art and I still say that anyone who can sign his or her name can learn to do realism. But it does take time and you seem to have several chronovores in your life. Sounds like you had smart parents. We didn't have a television when I was growing up, so I read voraciously. I guess you could call me a bibliovore LOL! I still don't own a TV. I watch DVDs on the computer if I need to see them.

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Oh, I have such a list of things I'd like to do or learn to do...and right now it seems that I can do none of them!! :-) It's just a phase of life, the boys will get older and I will have more opportunities for personal enrichment. And it's not true that I can't do any of them, I just have exceptionally little time, like for reading and writing, though I do squeeze it in. :-)

Yay for no TV! I don't let my kids watch ANY television (my husband and I don't watch any either); my three-year old is allowed to watch one movie a week (sometimes I let him watch two, but I always get mommy guilt for it, unless he is ill). I have an extremely low opinion of television, particularly when it comes to children watching it. I do hope both of my boys turn out to be "bibliovores" ;-), or at least outdoorsy... :-)

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Tell me about those lists. I'll need eternity to get everything done. I'm glad, amidst all the chaos, you've found that little time to write and read.

Good for you not letting TV raise the kids. As a college teacher, I can guarantee that one of the best preparations for success at this level is lots of reading to kids at the preschool level. And outdoorsy is good--they should be both! I love camping and hiking. Lots of crises to build character!

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