Spirit makes the sweetest filling in a mama-brother sandwich.
Baby, protected
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Categories : Reya, S'aka, Spirit, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
A joy to the heart
16 06 2013
And that’s about all I have to say about this image.
Bringing you love from Spring Creek Basin: Skywalker and his stepdaddy, Sundance.
Happy Father’s Day. 🙂
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Categories : Skywalker, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Sundance
Take care
15 06 2013
Mama Reya and baby Spirit in lovely late light.
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The devastating fires on Colorado’s Front Range probably are a news story in all parts of the country. So far, two people have been found dead, and more than 400 homes have been destroyed – the lives of more than 400 families in ashes. Many relief and support efforts are under way, for the people AND animals affected by the fires. Closer to Southwest Colorado, there was a giant plume of smoke on the southern end of the La Sal Mountains in Utah, apparently from two different fires.
It is DRY, and it is HOT, and it is WINDY; that’s a recipe for fires. The Utah fires are listed as having been caused by lightning, but (at least) the Black Forest Fire in Colorado was human-caused. Please be careful out there. Prayers for the people who have lost their homes and for rain always appreciated.
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Categories : Reya, Spirit, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Big-belly mamas
14 06 2013
Kootenai, left, and Raven, the other one with the big belly, are counting the days – or they would if they could count. They’re big mamas-to-be.
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Categories : Kootenai, Raven, Skywalker, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Sundance
Sibling spots
13 06 2013
Big brother S’aka is protective of his little sister, Spirit.
I found them – via the Jeep – in just about the same spot (heh) as when I hiked in and spotted them from Round Top.
How cute are they?
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Shady Shane
12 06 2013
Shane is a young mare in Hollywood’s band. She (apparently) had great fun with her mud treatment at the spa. That’s Mr. Bounce in the background, admiring from afar.
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Categories : Bounce, Shane, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Glimpse through the greasewood
11 06 2013
Tesora and her family were grazing on a greasewood flat above a big arroyo below Sorrel Flats the other day. The big ponies were hard enough to see, but baby was just about hidden!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Tesora
There to there and back again
10 06 2013
So here’s the deal with the pintos: They are self-segregating (if not self-regulating) and are not very often seen unless you work hard to see them. The last couple of times I’ve seen them, I have, in fact walked worked very hard to see them. Readers might recognize the above pic as a zoomed-in version of a photo I posted when I announced Reya had had her filly. I post it in lieu of the pic I would have taken the night before last if a) I hadn’t been on top of Round Top, b) they hadn’t been way out yonder and c) they/I would have been, you know, closer to each other.
I thought I was smart by hiking in from my favorite spot (no roads in McKenna Peak Wilderness Study Area – aka, “the WSA”). They were smarter (no comments!) by being where they would have been easily accessible had I driven in to my favorite drive-in spot from which to access the WSA. Naturally.
Early in the hike, I thought I might come back with pix of Ty, Chipeta and Seneca to share with you all, but, as the song goes, they might have been just an illusion, as completely, thoroughly and totally as they disappeared. I saw them, went to check on David, whose back I saw briefly, and when I went back to where I had seen Ty’s band: nada. Not even from the top of Round Top could I spot them again.
Even from a distance, through the binoculars, baby looked fine and healthy.
By the way, baby’s name is Spirit. Thanks to Corrie for the suggestion. 🙂
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Categories : Reya, S'aka, Spirit, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Mud monster
9 06 2013
Bounce is a bachelor since the 2011 roundup, and he has been hanging out with Hollywood’s and Comanche’s bands for quite a while now. The boys have distinctly separate bands, but they stay very close to each other. The mares mingle a little, and Madison and Temple seem to hang out as much as Madison and her sister Juniper.
The bands had been drinking from the trickle – along with bachelors Duke, Kreacher, Aspen and the young monsters bachelors. Most of the horses had splashes of mud on them – even across their faces. I thought Hollywood had acquired some new face scars until I saw the pix closer on the computer and realized they were streaks of mud. So they’re still finding water enough to drink – and play in! With gnat season in Disappointment Valley under way, that’s a good thing.
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Categories : Bounce, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Kwana & mama
8 06 2013
Kwana gives mama Terra a baby-schnuzzle. Isn’t he the cutest thing going? I can’t believe his eyes still are blue!
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Categories : Kwana, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Terra
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 