In my front yard a couple of weeks ago...she ate my hostas right down to the dirt! August 2007

Molly's class at Fishtrap, "The Way it Was." July 2007.

Me, with my friend Caroline's Icelandic horse, Perla. Summer 2007.

This is Melody, Caroline's bombproof quarter horse mare. Summer 2007.

Me and Mel again. Summer 2007.

With horse trainer Lesley Neuman coaching me from the rails, I spent the better part of two days starting Becky Sheridan's newly adopted mustang colt, Buck. Fall 2006.

Becoming acquainted toward the end of a couple of hours work. Fall 2006.

Me, with Lesley Neuman, watching the tired colt refuel. Fall 2006.

Imnaha House. I spent two weeks here, near the Snake River and the Idaho-Oregon border, working on The Hearts of Horses in company with other writer friends Bette Lynch Husted, Leslie What, and Kelly Link. Spring 2005.

This was taken on Little Sheep Creek Highway, headed down to the Imnaha House. It was mid-April, and they were moving cows and new calves to pasture. We waited for the dogs to clear our car a path. Spring 2005.

I spent a couple of weeks in June, 2004, on the H Bar H Ranch in Soda Springs, Idaho—a beautiful working cattle ranch straddling the Oregon Trail. This was early in the writing of The Hearts of Horses. I wanted to be somewhere I could ride (and write) every day, and get reacquainted with horses after a couple of decades away. That's me in the middle between Hilary and Dorian Schninning. June 2004.

Here we are crossing the Big Bear River. Dorian in front, then Hilary, me, and Mark Harris who along with his brothers and his dad run the H Bar H. June 2004.