Showing posts with label color. Show all posts
Showing posts with label color. Show all posts

Sunday, June 24, 2007

What color?

I've got a case of the 'punies', as my dad would say. Came home from the farmer's market yesterday feeling fatigued and with a bit of a sore throat. By last night my nose was completely stuffed and today my face aches. I won't be working horses today, not only because I just don't feel up to it, but because it's wet out yet again.



To keep you busy, though, how about you tell me what color Quiet Storm is? Her paperwork lists her as sorrel, but I'm not so sure about that. Others have stated she may be a silver bay. What do you think?


First, a profile shot. Her base color looks sorrel enough, but she's got mottled stockings, a dark muzzle and a rather odd colored mane/tail.


Her mane has dark roots, but that frosted tip isn't just baby or bleached; back near her withers she has new grown that is not as dark as the roots shown here. She also has a dark muzzle which turns black in the winter.

There is a line barely visible down her back. Actually, you can barely see it up near the withers, not at all down her back, but it shows up again here on her butt. Note the tail color, too; silver and gray hairs there at the top.

Another look at the tail coloring, plus a better look at those legs. Darker hair, but not solid. It's mottled, both in front and back. You can see the backs of her front and that the 'stockings' come up well past her knees.

So, all you color gurus...what color is this horse?