You plant people know you're the only ones who have the slightest clue, right? The rest of us just go "flower!"

You don't know the half of it. My entire interaction with the boards is made up of me sitting at the computer and shouting "actor!" "dress!" "cat!" "nun!"

I think you'll agree, my voice recognition software is top-notch.

There used to be a whole big run of young adult horse books that featured palominos.

I'm for damn sure there's a palamino somewhere in a Sweet Valley High book. Palamino = favorite horse of oung girls not Plei or Zen or Aims? Funnily enough, I love appys and percherons.

And now I'm giggling at Plei's horse posts, given her current tagline.

And I thought the cream-to-platinum mane, tail, and points with a medium-to-pale chestnut coat defined palomino--do I have that wrong?

There's a champion Belgian breeder back home in my area of Pennsylvania. I loved going to the country fair so I could get up close and stare at the big, mellow horses. Such a gorgeous color.

And I thought the cream-to-platinum mane, tail, and points with a medium-to-pale chestnut coat defined palomino--do I have that wrong?

Genetically different. The palomino is a chestnut with a single dilute gene (double dilute gives you a cremello). Belgians are generally undilute light chestnuts with flaxen manes and tails.

(ETA, I had TOTALLY forgotten this was my tag. HA!)

Yeah, I noticed that about the foal too. (Perhaps whoever cut the trailer got the wrong foal- here's hoping.)

Of course, the foal could still have been very, very wet.

Picture of Secretariat as a foal (but definitely not a newborn.)

I mistook a percheron for a palamino tonight.

I'm starting to understand how most people feel when I start ranting about the physics of movie time travel...

To go upthread a bit:

I met a woman named Alia once

My great-grandmother's name was Alita; I've always wanted to find out if that was a common name in late-19th-century Chicago.