rocking horse
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Set against the distant Blue Ridge Mountains, it depicts a favorite Southern activity—akin to her widely admired maple-sugaring paintings set up north—embellished with details like the tiny rocking horse on her front porch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
"My nana and grandad, who have passed away, used to have a rocking horse so I thought that would be a lovely memory for her tree."
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2024
Among the items lost to the fire were original paintings, photographs from her childhood and an antique rocking horse that, according to family lore, Richard Nixon rode on as a baby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
The five-act show also included a set consisting of mushrooms, an oversized snail, rubber ducks and a rocking horse.
From Fox News ● Dec. 30, 2021
No porcelain rocking horse, the one Mom always put at the tip-top of the tree so no one could break it.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
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