Once you see Terra’s femmy little mustachio, you canNOT unsee it. 🙂
Is she the cutest, or what!
(Yes, that white in the background is snow … it’s also FAR away and doesn’t help us at all.)
Earth beauty
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Still fuzzy
28 02 2026
Another 60F-plus day. The ponies are semi-shedding.
Juniper hasn’t graced the blog for a while, but here she is, still fuzzy and glamorous in the evening light. It’s hard to remember that it’s February. The days are a little longer every day. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Glorious girl
27 02 2026
Cassidy Rain never quiiiiite properly looked up from her grazing at me (for me?), but she’s so beautiful, and that background was so glorious and dramatic (yay, clouds, but no rain on another 65F day), that I figured it’d do.
Am I wrong?
No. No, I am not. 🙂
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Categories : Knife Edge, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Another warm one
26 02 2026
Yesterday was another day when the temperature hit at least 65F. I wish those clouds had given us moisture, like the several-days-ago-forecast hinted was possible, but all the atmosphere delivered was more wind.
Fortunately, Alegre and her band are finding water (look at that mud!). I think it’s a pond that’s no longer (easily) accessible because of washouts across the road.
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Categories : Brumley Point, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
65F
25 02 2026
In February.
It was warm. It was beautiful. There are still some damp patches from the melting snow that fell (and stuck briefly) Friday. The mustangs were peaceful throughout Spring Creek Basin (Buckeye above). … It should NOT be 65 degrees in February in Colorado.
Randomly, the moon was nearly straight overhead while I was out with Buckeye’s band, so I took my camera off the monopod and aimed straight up and clicked off several shots, not expecting much. But they turned out super crisply sharp, so I’m including the very first one I snapped. How cool is the moon? Just in case you’re interested in such things, depending on where you are (it’ll be visible across North America), there’s a lunar eclipse coming early in the morning of March 3, as the full worm moon is setting!
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Categories : Moon, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
For the good
24 02 2026
Back to current conditions, though this pic of Winona was taken the day before the snow-that-stuck-day (as opposed to the blowing-snow-didn’t-stick-at-all-days).
So peaceful … but we need a lot more of those snow-sticking days for the good of the rest of our year!
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Categories : Colorado, Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon, Utah
Almost camouflaged
23 02 2026
None of that snow is still there (as of the afternoon of the day I took that pic of Skywalker!), but it was decently wet snow, and so the ground is still damp to muddy in places (thankfully and finally). Almost none of the exceptionally little snow this winter has lasted past the day it fell, so I like to take advantage to show at least a few images, though it doesn’t match the current scene any longer!
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Categories : Snow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Fantastic flurries
22 02 2026
The snow is gone (nearly, mostly; some persists on the shady north-facing sides of ridges and slopes, but even that is mostly melted), and we didn’t have more than an inch (and that’s *tops*).
So the above pic of Tenaz, glowing glamorously in the blowing snow (and yes, it was blowing hard again, but this time out of the southwest/west) is a moment in time, caught and then shortly after capture, gone with the soaking in of that white background to the super-thirsty soil.
A moment I was as happy to capture as I am to share. 🙂
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Categories : Snow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Snowy butts
21 02 2026
All the horses had white tails (at least temporarily) yesterday while the wind delivered another dose of SNOW! And as you can see from the pic of Temple above, this time, it actually stuck (at least temporarily). 🙂
By 1:30, the sky was clearing from white to brilliant blue, the sun was returning to its super-shine, and the snow was well on its way to melting.
The relief is palpable. 🙂
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Categories : Snow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Imagine that view white
20 02 2026
The above pic of Winona looking slightly muddy and very peaceful is the day after the day of windblown snow (also known as yesterday). Yeah. That’s about how much snow actually landed (yes, I know it’s very brown, and most of the mud was already dry or drying, thanks to the sunshine and less but not gone breeze). We’re looking northwestish across the rimrocks of Spring Creek Basin’s canyon, across lower Disappointment Valley and out to our horizon of Utah’s La Sal Mountains … looking here like they were anticipating this morning’s snow (? that’s a hopeful statement as I’m typing this Thursday night).
Behind me is Flat Top, and there were patches of snow on its sides and base, contributing moisture to the soil as it melted. So that was nice.
And, really, how ’bout that view? I dunno about you, but Winona makes it perfect. 🙂
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Categories : Colorado, Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Snow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 