Reminds me of a pic I took of her as a baby …
The light on the grass makes it look like she’s surrounded by fireflies. Last light high on the rimrocks.
‘Nona Winona
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Little blue eyes
15 09 2012
Coming up with a mustang baby’s name has never been so difficult – or seemed so important.
I wanted to choose a name for this colt that reflects his heritage as the grandson of our marvelous stallion, Grey/Traveler, this home he was born to, Spring Creek Basin, Colorado, and the legacy he has inherited.
Grey Eagle was the sire of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s famous war horse, Traveller. That might be swapping things around a bit, but because Traveller was gelded, he left no offspring. Eagles – both golden and bald – can be seen here (infrequently, though a couple of Forest Service folks were here in late winter to count them and check nesting sites, and I have seen raptors of both species in the sky and on land – and fence wire). A terrific, family-published book, Where Eagles Winter, by Wilma Bankston, paints a fascinating history of Disappointment Valley and the surrounding region. The Utes traditionally hunted and traveled this land, and knew it more intimately than we ever can.
The Ute word for eagle is kwana (kwah-nah).
He may be somewhat lacking in fierceness at this tender age, but little Kwana has some big hoofprints to fill.
And he’s going to turn grey. 🙂
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Categories : Kwana, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Terra
All eyes on the belly
14 09 2012Not yet … 🙂
‘Nuff said.
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Categories : Chipeta, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
See ya!
14 09 2012Took some friends into the basin. Saw Comanche’s and Hollywood’s and Bounce at a distance. Grey/Traveler’s band offered us a great visit right off the road! Then, as we were headed to the northwest valley to check for bachelors, here they came! We stopped in a near tunnel of trees and got the cameras ready. They came right up the road, then around and past us through the pinon/juniper!
Too fast! Too many trees! But I snapped this one of Hayden just before he dashed through the trees and out of sight:
Showing off that big mustang trot!
And just like that, they were lost in the trees.
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Smooches from mama
14 09 2012They’re the best!
Little blue eyes is doing well, but he had a bit of a cough and a bloody nose. Daddy Chrome also had a cough. I don’t very often hear the horses coughing. Will keep an eye on the little mister, but hopefully it’s just a case of a “boy being a boy.”
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Sister, brother
13 09 2012Always handsome, this pair.
Skywalker with big sister Mysterium.
This band has been relatively elusive lately; this photo is from late August. I last saw them last week, way up high above the northwest valley toward Klondike Basin. A couple of Forest Service folks – H and W – brought Pinch and Jammer and Traveler (!), and we rode some fence and fixed some fence. It was a great couple of days, and the mustangs are safer because of it!
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Categories : Advocacy, Fence work, Mysterium, Partnership, Skywalker, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Work projects
Our Gaia
13 09 2012Spring Creek Basin’s Gaia …
… with her baby girl, Cassidy Rain. Gorgeous girls in golden light.
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Cassidy Rain
12 09 2012Gaia’s little girl sparkles. Really. That’s the word. See if you don’t agree:
Love the ‘tude!
Love this little beauty. 🙂
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Mustang art in Ridgway (CO)
11 09 2012If you’re in Southwest Colorado, consider stopping by the Ridgway library on Saturday to see a show by Ouray/South Carolina artist Karen Keene Day and Ridgway artist Alice Billings.
The top painting, by Karen, features Steeldust. The lower painting features Liberty, adopted by Alice.
The art opening will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the library in Ridgway. The art will hanging in the library until Nov. 9. (I’m not sure this side of the card is legible, but I don’t have it in high resolution.)
This local art show featuring the work of local artists of our Spring Creek Basin mustangs aims to raise awareness of our local wild horses. The artistic tribute paid to our horses by these special women is best seen in person. If you’re in the area, stop in and say hello!
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He’s touching me
11 09 2012This photo of Tenaz and Apollo cracks me up:
Tenaz, standing his ground but leaning so far away from Apollo, rubbing away the flies on his pal’s shoulder.
Two of the young misters handsome. Had a great visit with these boys. So silly. So awesome!
Apollo gives Hayden a schnuzzle.
That Apollo. What a lover. 🙂 And who can resist kisses for the boy with the heart on his forehead (who has a birthday coming up soon)?
Three words: Trouble. Times. Three.
And one more word: CUUUUUUUUUUUTE!
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