2004 Rastede - Oldenburg Tour

Spring Memories For Autumn Melancholy

October 26, 2004

One can no longer deny it, autumn has arrived. Leaves are falling and cold, dreary winter is just around the corner. When one looks out of the window, all you can see are beautiful palets of red, brown, yellow, beige; the colors of the leaves turning. It's not longer all shades of green, it is the color of decay that is surrounding is.

I never found the time to share these images with you. On our spring trip to the Oldenburg Elite Mare show in Rastede, Germany, Eurodressage and its American Oldenburg friends stopped at a couple of breeder's farms to take photos of the herds and to inspect this year's crop of foals. Breeders such as Martin Detemann, Heiko Klausing, Clemens von Merveldt and Olliver Kotschofsky opened their gates to the mare fields...

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