Again from Valentine’s Day, when the clouds were clearing from the rain – and some snow, as you can see well farther up-valley southeast of Disappointment Valley. Chipeta consented to look interested for the shot.
Contrasts
16 02 2026Comments : 4 Comments »
Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Big relief in a tiny amount
15 02 2026We got rain. 🙂 Don’t get squeamish about Friday the 13th; that was our LUCKY day in Southwest Colorado!
Valentine’s Day morning: Clouds clearing from the peak of McKenna and the upper butte of Temple. The snow on the left/north-facing side of McKenna Peak is fresh (and no longer there after the clouds cleared to reveal a completely clear Colorado sky).
Warm, damp ground + moisture = rising steam and lingering cloud banks. In laywoman’s terms: gorgeous.
A few miles of zooming and a hike of a couple of miles and a different part of the basin later: Seneca and her band greeted me. That’s Brumley Point behind her; McKenna Peak and Temple Butte are just to the left. They were still holding *some* clouds, but you can see the sunshine is already defeating the clouds handily.
More moisture coming this coming week? Everything is crossed, and hopes are high for even a little bit more rain or – super hopefully – some snow.
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Rain, Snow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Add a little love
14 02 2026
The more love you put into the world, the more you receive. Lovely how that works, eh?
Happy Valentine’s Day, dear readers!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Red rock beauty
13 02 2026
Beautiful Aiyanna and the matching edge of the western-boundary rimrock behind her are almost enough to detract from the craziness of another 60-plus-degree day in Southwest Colorado.
Today … snow? Because … COLORADO! Wish us moisture! (Please! :))
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Girl pretty dark
12 02 2026
Don’t you love dark-velvet Cassidy Rain with those blue shadows in the background complementing her classic good mustang beauty?
How can you not!? 🙂
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Handsome quick pose
11 02 2026
Quiet Tenaz strikes his *wild stallion* pose.
I saw him just as he stepped into position, and I snapped about four pix … and just as I shifted to the right to try to get more of the mountains (visible at far left) in the frame, he returned to quiet grazing mode. 🙂
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Lady wild
10 02 2026
Kestrel was born the year I started documenting the Spring Creek Basin herd. She’ll be 19 this year.
I wish I looked as amazing 19 years on as she does. 😉
Here’s to many more years with this first lady of Spring Creek Basin!
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Beautiful dry
9 02 2026
This was at least a 57-degree day in still-early February. The temp has been as high as 65 – in still-early February.
Buckeye and the mustangs and all of us are looking for rain – hopefully!!! – the end of this week!
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Categories : Colorado, Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Snow so close
8 02 2026
Not super close, of course. That snow, on those mountains, is in Utah. It doesn’t flow to Disappointment Valley; not even Disappointment Creek (which is still dry and isn’t likely to flow much this year) flows into Spring Creek Basin. We need snow (or rain, at this point, we are NOT picky) to fall IN/ALL OVER/ON Spring Creek Basin (and greater Disappointment Valley … OK, the entire Western Slope of Colorado … all right, really, all of THE WEST).
The optimistic forecast continues its slide until you wonder why the forecasters bothered teasing us at all. … It changes about every five minutes, and any possible/potential moisture is close to a week out anyway (it continues to slide in delays, too).
Terra enjoyed her nap a couple of weeks ago with that beautiful background. Then life got busy and I nearly forgot about that beautiful day with her band.
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
All the things
7 02 2026
That side-eye!
That pointy ear!!
That lip!!!
That loopy little mane braid. 🙂
Oh, Cassidy Rain, I love you so.
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Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 