From her stable's most senior resident, Fire (left), to Maverick, (right) its youngest, Lacy Butterfield's love for horses (and her visitors) knows no bounds (Shane Butterfield photo)
Firefly lights the way to local resident's dream
Shane Butterfield
Contributing Writer
On any pleasant summer evening at the rural Elgin property of Lacy Butterfield, fireflies are a familiar sight, as flashes of their sparkling luminescence conspicuously interrupt the falling darkness.
The seeming omnipresence of these nocturnal beetles, however, was not Butterfield’s motive for naming her enterprise Firefly Stables, the area’s newest equine boarding option and lesson arena. The name, instead, reflects a creative union of the stable’s most senior inhabitants’ names: Fire, a 23-year-old Arabian gelding, and Madam Butterfly, or Maddie, the property’s sole pony.
These familiar fixtures have been joined in Butterfield’s herd by two more recent additions, a black mare named Lady and Maverick, a 2-year-old grey Thoroughbred gelding, whose curiosity and vigor are both readily apparent.
To these horses, as well as to a growing number of visitors and boarders, Butterfield’s land is home.
