Nawroz - Nowruz e Shoma Pirooz - Spring has come

 Salvete Omnes,

Spring has some - the ancient Spring Equinox festival in the Northern Hemisphere when the actual year starts after the colds of winter. 

In the ancient tradition it was one of  the most important holidays - Nowruz in the Zoroastrian religious tradition and later cultures. 

Persepolis relieves to commemorate the festival and happy Spring and New Year (in old Slavic pagan tradition that was also the day of the new year).

And Buzkashu in Mazar e Sharif, Afghanistan in 2011

. enjoy 

Valete 

Babenberger Stammbaum 1492AD - bridles

 Salvete Omnes,

a short but with plenty of imagery - the bridles from the late XV century Holy Roman Empire, more precisely from inside of the Roman Catholic  Klosterneuburg Abbey, where Hans Part and other painters painted a family tree triptych known as the  Babenberger Stammbaum (the Babenberg Family Tree) circa 1489-92.

The bridles - a whole array of curb-bits, double reins and headstalls:

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enjoy 

Valete

Persian onager - Gur

 Salvete Omnes,

today a short entry on the Persian Onager aka Gur-khar

Onager - from Horse and its Relatives - by Richard Lydekker (1912).

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. two-wheeled vehicle (not a true Indo-European chariot of later 3rd millennium) from the Early Dynastic Period , Mesopotamia, Iraq: Tell-Agrab 2600-2370BC

donkey at the top, onager at the bottom

Great Salt Desert in the Kavir National Park with camels 

and doneys

& horses

Sassanian era Deir-e/Gayr-e Gachin Cararavansarai with mount Damavand in the background

Shahnameh- Bahram Gur hunting

by the way, quite a nice dog this Persian mastiff

all images are from Wiki Commons - thanks to all the photographers for their work and copyleft 

Valete