Horses and Lighthouses

It seems to me Chicago started this trend with the painted fiberglass animals when they had "Cows on Parade". Since then I have seen so many different painted figures. In Maine we saw bears which I think were in Bristol, ME; lobsters in Rockport, ME; Angel Fish in New Orleans, LA; hearts in San Francisco, CA and my very own town of Naperville has had giraffes, pigs, horses, seahorses, butterflies, turtles and I can't even remember which others. I wonder what we will have this year? In Naperville, they are only up for the summer and then they auction them off for United Way - which is a cool idea! And, here we are on the Outer Banks and they have horses as well as flying horses. We can't decide if they have the horses because of the wild horses in Corolla or if they just liked the horses. And do they keep them up all year? Do you know? If so, leave a comment because our inquiring minds would like to know.


















And if you should be wondering the reason we spent the day taking pictures of horses and not walking the beach it would be because it was extremely windy last night and this morning and it was cold too! We started out the morning just being lazy and watching The View. At some point we decided we should pick up a few groceries and maybe a few movies since we thought we would not be going anywhere. However, when we got to the store we realized the weather was changing and it just might be a good day to see the other side of this peninsula. The clouds were completely gone so we thought we might try to see at least one or two light houses and along the way I decided I wanted pictures of the horses as well. And the lighthouses, well we did see two. The first one in Bodie Island we just got out and took a picture and left because it was too cold and windy. I know, we are wimps! Then we went to Currituck and took the picture of the brick lighthouse. On this side of the peninsula it was much warmer so we did get out and walk around a little before driving back to our bungalow by the sea.






















I wonder what tomorrow will bring?