There were horses out today...

There were horses out today in the cold countryside ~ some with blankets.  For such weather, they were surprisingly still...almost like statues!  I wondered if they should be left out in these freezing temperatures...perhaps they were just getting some fresh air?  I gazed across the expanse of fields.  There were a few scattered houses, farms.  There were rows of trees beyond the fields, far away.  The tips of the brown branches, reaching upwards, looked fine against the blue sky ~ and all together they looked a bit like the bristles of a giant brush.