Thanks again, everyone, for your wonderful comments! We've always thought he was beautiful, but that has more to do with who he is and less to do with how he looks, because he is an amazing character!
I have to tell on him, though...
Saturday afternoon when we brought him home from the fair, I put him in the corral with Thelonius and Pastorius and threw out some hay. Mingus didn't want to share his pile, and he backed his beautiful butt toward them and flattened his ears, looking ever so UNglamorous...I had to laugh at how ugly a pretty boy can be!