Damn! I just know I'm going to need that title again. From time to time one encounters the somewhat unusual along one's way. Something unexpected or unexplained ... or both. Seemingly abandoned in a field at one of the local country clubs is a pair of mustard coloured stucco horses. At least one and a half times life-sized and rampant, as if posing for inclusion in some coat of arms, these two rearing beasts are actually quite fearsome. What was their original purpose? The neighbouring polo fields certainly confirm the club's equestrian pursuits - but these are hardly your common or garden polo ponies. The more I looked the more I felt that if they unexpectedly sprang to life I'd be in the midst of a scene from an episode of Lord of the Rings. Where is Gandalf when his steed really needs him? Perhaps one day I'll see this beast at work - until then I'll remember him as Shadowfax.
Unable to find an angle at which I could capture the pair without extraneous background clutter (they do deserve a better home), I have tried here to convey that Middle Earth feeling I sensed at the time as well as the dominating size of the 'sculptures' compared to the human scale. Not usually keen on digital photo manipulation I have applied soft focus filtering around the lower edges of the image to add to that sense of other worldliness. I think it is justified here.
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