Selfie

Just Reynolds in the Spanish style

Arab horse head and bum

 

Bertram Allen brilliant young Irish showjumping

 

Carlow Farmers

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A picture speaks a thousand words and this one upsets a lot of people and makes a lot of people very happy. Who is to say who is right and wrong. Both sides believe in their arguments. I know people on both sides and they are not bad people, they just see the world differently. Of course the moral high ground does go to the antis I guess but I’ve always found the moral high ground a dangerous place. I mean where does it stop…..a woman has a right to kill a child in her body…but don’t kill animals to eat them? I am firmly on the fence, my head says ‘this’ and and my heart says ‘that’!

While I love to watch the spectacle of the hunt I do realise that I am slightly uncomfortable about the ethics of it all. To those of you who have never seen a hunt it is not what you imagine. I have a lurcher and all she thinks about when she sees anything that is not a dog or bigger than her is kill! However I am going to park that as this picture sums up Autumn for so many people that I know. If you look at it uncritically and just take the images in it without knowledge of the intent it is a picture of joy….horse, hounds and beautiful autumn colours.