on a frosty Tucson morning....

.... a rider warms up her horse for their dressage test. We don't typically see quarter blankets and parkas here in the desert but it's been very cold for much of this winter. It's a novelty in a way, for me, a throwback to growing up back East. Regardless of chattering teeth, it was fun watching all that steamy breath of athletes exercising against a beautiful backdrop such as this sunrise.

hanging out...

... this guy was just hanging out and hanging onto the screen. Amazing, this lack of fear to hang by the wispy screen, secure in the knowledge you won't be talling down 5 feet to the hard surface of the patio where you might just fall on your little lizard head. Cool little silhouette he made in his bravado... I couldn't resist watching him. I wonder what amount of bravado is just right and what is too little or too much and how does one know these things?