Horses on a Hill

Taken in 2004 in North Central Tennessee, about an hour and a half east of Nashville, near the town of Cookeville at a horse farm / ranch where we went to do some horseback riding, though the horses in this shot were not used for riding. Having never been on a horse in the hill country before it was quite an experience. Almost all of us felt certain that we were going to die at least once during the hour long ride. The horse riding ranches we've been to in our area of Florida are the type where the horses go one speed - slow - no matter what and follow each other slowly and the land is flat. These in Tennessee were not such horses. They would gallop, go through trees and bushes, stop, and - once we learned out to control them 3/4 of the way through the trip - do anything you told them to do. A little more training would have been nice other than, "Put your feet in the stirrups, hold this here rope thing, and hold on." :)