Twelve Days of Christmas - One / by Dave Hileman

I was able, along with two friends, to spend three days on Chincoteague Island last week. Lots of fun photographing wild ponies, Snow Geese, herons, a few people and some interesting shore buildings as well as a short jaunt in the sleet and snow to Ocean City, Maryland. Not a lot of people on the beach there. In the small town of Chincoteague they have an equally small park that is all higgledy-piggledy with lots of people’s ideas of what ought to be there. The one that I expect had no opposing voices - the statue of Misty, the pony whose story made the island world famous. It was appropriate to deck her out for Christmas. I included two of the many ponies I photographed as well.