Rhapsodies

Lake City’s “Pioneers’ Day” street fair was last Saturday. I confess it is not my favorite street fair of the season but it’s in my neighborhood and I like the community participation.

Anyway one of the more popular venues at it is the pony ride. I’d done a sketch of it last year having been drawn by the look on the horses that looked like tired stoicism. These guys looked like they had a better attitude (probably hadn’t been on the job as long)

Technically this is an amalgamation of all of the ponies on the wheel. They were moving too fast and switching off children for me to get anything solid so I merged all the details together. But for the sake of argument let’s pretend it’s a picture of the one pony whose name I remembered, a stallion named Captain Jack. (I have no idea whether he was named this because of his rum colored hide of if his owners were Billy Joel/Torchwood fans.)

The bank parking lot still smelled of horse several days later (considering all of the interesting times Bank of America is going though I wonder if that makes for an amusing metaphor)