RSE Young Riders Series If you should have the pleasure of meeting teenage equestrian rider Quintyn Baeumler, you will come away with an appreciation of the possibilities that he represents to the equestrian community and, indeed, to other communities well beyond it. It was our decided pleasure to speak with Quintyn recently about his involvement in the world of riding. He is a fine young man who shared with us some of his thoughts and experiences in his equestrian career thus far. It was likely no real surprise to his family that Quintyn took up riding, given that he has always had a love for animals, and reflected upon various ecosystems. Starting to ride at about ten years old, Quintyn...
“There is always Music amongst the trees in the garden. But our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.” Minnie Aumônier “There is always Music amongst the trees in the garden. But our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.” These are the words of Minnie Aumônier whose own heart must have been a very quiet one. It is not always easy, however, to have a heart quiet enough to hear the music of the garden. To help us, we often find in the garden a small little man who resides there, patiently reminding us of Ms. Aumônier’s words. The decorative Garden Gnome, often dressed in a red hat and usually porting a long white beard is, at...
Part of the beauty of living is our very search for beauty itself. We look, don’t we, for beauty in both the everyday and in the foreign landscape? We look for beauty when we travel to foreign lands, in their people, ideas and art and culture. We look, too, to bring a fragment of foreign beauty home. Presently, RSE travels to a place of stunning beauty and one known for the beauty of not only its landscapes, but also its culture and cloth. We travel to the open sky and the treeless vistas of Scotland. To the bog and peat and heath, then, we journey, if only in our imaginations, through words and pictures. Travelling is also, however, often a...
In the spirit in which some writers wrote in instalments for newspapers or magazines in nineteenth-century England, RSE presents the fictional, serial story of Mary Hinds and her horse Lilly, entitled “At the Barn.” The first instalment in this series appeared on 5 April 2019. [https://redscarfequestrian.ca/blogs/equestrian-horse-blog/at-the-barn-somewhere-between-winter-and-spring]. ~~~ “Jane never did end up making it to the barn that day,” thought Mary, lying awake in the darkness in the wee hours thinking about her. The winds were bad again tonight, almost as bad as that day a few weeks ago when Jane seemed lost to the world. Mary had slept hardly at all, what with the crashes of branches, the creaking of the farmhouse, the rattle of the windows and her...
It has been said that you cannot experience the Canadian Prairie and remain the same. As you travel down the plumb-line-straight highway, lying exposed, like the prairie itself, under an overarching sky, the fields on each side of you interrupted only by an occasional gravel road, you try to understand just how that could be, how this landscape could change you. True, its beauty is not always appreciated at first view. Still, if you stay the course and journey over a grassland that often seems more like ocean than firm ground and try to understand what the prairie is saying to you with its windswept voice, if you remain for a time truly present to it, you might just obtain...
