September's Postcard of the Month

Hot, dry setting of the sun as the summer wanes.

Also a tribute to my sister's horse, Skippy.*

Who, sadly, has now walked towards an eternal sunset.

I have this horse stamp:

And I have this beautiful striped orange paper:

So I tried it with the 3 horses:

Didn't do much for me, so I tried placing them in front of 'mountains':

Which was better, but still not it, so I thought maybe just one of the horses:

And then I centered him under the setting sun:

That was as close as the prototype got.

So then I stamped out a set of 'horse with 'mountains':

(most of)

The Fixin's

Steps: The Movie:

The Steps

(a mere 11 steps this month!)

This is as far as the prototype got me, but it still seemed to need something...

Thus: Long afternoon shadows:

Panels of different configurations of 12 of September's postcards:

Fin.

*Skippy,  age 24, was diagnosed with an irreparable fractured hip a couple of weeks ago, and so my sister made the heartbreaking decision to relieve him of his suffering.  He was a sweet and talented show horse

who, with my sister, won them the 2013 Green Mountain Hunter-Jumper state championship.