Maria and I left Boston this morning and stopped by Blue-Star Equiculture to see the horses (a soggy Christmas feed celebration) and our friends Pamela Richenback and Paul Moshimer, co-directors of the farm, an organic farm research center, a horse rescue facility, and the retirement home of the New York Carriage Horses.

I love photographing Paul, I always think he ought to be on the prow of a British Royal Navy fleet  sailing out to confront the Spanish Armada with Lord Nelson. In a sense he is, he and Pamela are among the most  interesting (and fun) people I have  met, they do all kinds of good work on too many levels to recount at once.

Blue-Star is an exciting place, worth  a website or real visit, worth joining and helping, we have met some of the  people drawn to Blue-Star and interning and volunteering there. Pam and Paul do  therapy and social work with emotionally disabled people and also draw poets, firemen, students and interesting people to the farm.

Paul was with Sonny today, a colt rescued from a New England farm where he was starving to death, abandoned in a field eating twigs. He  came into Blue-Star yesterday, has been checked by a vet and is warm, safe and eating fresh and good hay.

We went for a rain-soaked, wind-driven cart ride, Maria rode a giant horse named Piper (photos to come) and we had lunch in the Blue-Star farm kitchen.  Some of the most interesting conversation happens at that table, I think.

A great cap to two great days in Boston, Blue-Star is on the way home. Check out their website, if you are a horse or animal lover or follower of the human experience, you can hardly do better. If you are looking for a worthwhile cause to join or contribute to, this is a good one. We are grateful to have these people in our lives, Maria is going to spend a week at Blue-Star soon working with the horses. She has a powerful connection with Pamela and the draft horses, we talked about it all the way home.