The Slower Road

With a few dry, sunny interludes, we’ve had quite a lot of rain over the past couple of days. Which has made for some wet horses, ponies, and drivers at this week’s National Drive.

Things didn’t start out so wet, though. The early-bird arrivals had sunshine to drive in on Wednesday:

waving on the way by …

… and driving off into the sunny Horse Park

I never made it out of the office on Thursday to see what was going on in the barns, vendor area, and park generally. But we did get rained on a good bit in the afternoon. Bill Kraatz sent the following photo of the end of his drive in the rain (he said they weren’t going to let “a little rain” stop them and that they had a fabulous time):

returning from a wet, but enjoyable, drive

Today, the weather is alternating between gray, sunny, and downpours, as a huge storm system slides by Lexington (along the Ohio River valley) and catches us with a few of its outlying squalls. With any luck, the forecast for tomorrow (sunny) will hold true.

enjoying the Horse Park between rain storms (1) …

… and 2 …

… and 3 …

… and then, sadly, this was the scene in the vendor area about ten minutes later as yet another downpour moved in (fortunately, everyone seems to have brought their wet-weather gear, even if they don’t have it with them at all times)