Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Kootenai is less than two months from her due date.

And Mysterium is still nursing.

And the baby girl shows no sign of stopping – nor Kootenai of weaning her.

She looks healthy and glowing with good health, doesn’t she?

Am I biased, or is she really as stunning as I think she is? Maybe it’s her color (dun), maybe it’s their shared Sand Wash Basin heritage, but she and Winona (buckskin) remind me quite a bit of each other.

Tell me the little miss isn’t just exquisite! Such refined, pretty faces and kind eyes.

I love Skywalker’s funny little look at “auntie” Kootenai over his shoulder. Raven is grazing just in front of him.

I had the most peaceful visit with this colorful family at sunset. I went out and sat, and Raven calmly and surely grazed her way toward me, and then they were all around. Like a laidback introduction of baby to “society.” So sweet about it.

Grey/Traveler’s family also were in Wildcat Valley; they’ve been hanging out there for weeks now, with water in a rough triangle between the trickle (which is doing well after our work), Wildcat Spring and the main arroyo at the base of the east-west hill.

Kootenai’s due date is a surer thing than our next rain! How weird that is to contemplate.

Thank you to all who have expressed care and concern for those in Southwest Colorado who have been evacuated from their homes and/or are fighting the fires. Most of the smaller, lightning-strike fires have been stopped in their tracks, apparently. The Weber Fire just southeast of Mancos is now estimated at 9,279 acres with 45 percent containment. Unfortunately, a juvenile is a “person of interest” in connection with starting that fire.