Neptune’s Horses

I love this painting by William Crane entitled “Neptune’s Horses”. Like the Greek god Poseidon, Neptune was honored by the Romans as the god of horses as well as freshwater and the sea. The visual of a running line of stampeding horses is very much like the action of waves arriving and breaking on shore. The energy of life in motion. There is a Roman mosaic of Neptune driving a team of horses that have front horse legs and long eel-like tails in the back, so half-horse and half-fish. In terms of myth-making it is a brilliant combination! We live in Ridgway, Colorado, which is horse and ranching country. There are three domesticated wild Mustangs in a pasture adjacent to our property, and two other properties within our view where we watch the social behavior and antics of the horses with binoculars. We like to call it “Horse TV”. Riding waves and ridings horses, Yeehaw!