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This horses are of a special race; the konik horse.
As it is genetically very close to the extinct tarpan, the original European wild horse, it has been introduced into many nature reserves in the Netherlands such as the Ossenwaard, near Deventer, the city I live.
The konik are big grazers. They keep the landscape open, and when kept without supplemental winter feeding, they alter the landscape to produce more parklike forest.

Frosted grass
It's totally winter overhere.
Better than that everlasting rain, in my opinion! : ]

Seductive crystal ice they were....
Pale like the jeweler’s jade locket
I yearned for but couldn’t afford
Mirrored orbs alternating fire and ice
Twin planets revolving slowly around pain
A universe I wanted...needed to explore

From the Poem; Ice Queen
By La Belle Rouge

Closer Look

Beauty is a manifestation
of secret natural laws,
which otherwise
would have been
hidden from us
forever.

Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

Macro of the small flower of the African Hemp (Sparrmannia africana).

In nature, nothing is perfect
and everything is perfect.

Quote by Alice Walker

Macro of the flower of the Protea nutan