[Photo Journal / A-Z Photo Story Challenge] H is for Horses

Myra here.

It is Tuesday! I am glad to be joining Frizztext’s A-Z Photo Story Challenge. For this week’s H-Photo-Story, I thought about 2014 being the Year of the Horse.

During the Celebration of Chinese New Year here in Singapore, my family and I visited the Flower Dome and Cloud Forest found in Singapore Gardens by the Bay. Chinese New Year is a big thing here, and so one could see a lot of horse sculptures in most touristy places. Here are a few that I have taken.

H is for Horses: 2014 is Year of the Horse

“When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes. ”
― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“He’s of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger…. he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.”
― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“Most horses don’t walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can’t see doesn’t exist.”
― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

“Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said.

‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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