Just a look

11 04 2017

Reya

Reya found a quiet spot, slightly out of the wind between two trees, below McKenna Peak.





Blown

10 04 2017

Kwana

It takes a stiff wind to pick up and move those heavy braids and twisted strands of mustang mane. The horses take it all as it comes.





Spittin’ with the wind

9 04 2017

Skywalker, Temple Butte and McKenna Peak

Skywalker spit a bit of something that he was grazing, and it blew with the wind (do you see it?).

It was crazy windy. It was beautiful. 🙂





Splendid shaggy

8 04 2017

Tenaz

Tenaz is rocking the latest mustang fashion trend: almost-spring-and-trying-to-shed.

🙂

It’s a hot look right now on ranges everywhere!





Bay ‘n blue

7 04 2017

Shane

Miss Shane prepares to stand after lying down to roll in the soft mud.





Between storms

6 04 2017

Aspen; members of Comanche's band in the background.

Aspen trots back to his band, which was near another band, as a wave of rain approaches Spring Creek Basin.





Still shaggy

5 04 2017

Spirit and Puzzle; Brumley Point

Brumley Point looks like some kind of dormant volcano in this stormy image of spotted girls Spirit and Puzzle.

We’re so grateful for the rain we’ve gotten lately in Southwest Colorado, and particularly in Spring Creek Basin and greater Disappointment Valley. This is the fuel our grasses need to feed our wildlife.

Though they’re shedding, the horses still have shaggy coats. Nature knows what it knows. We watch it unfold with great anticipation.





Grey and sunlit blue

4 04 2017

Maia; Temple Butte

Maia was in the shade of a coming rain-wave while Temple Butte glowed in sunlight from a minute break in the clouds.





Flirt

3 04 2017

Kwana, Temple Butte

For just about every photo I take of the horses, in Spring Creek Basin, my impulse for a blog post is to type “handsome,” “gorgeous,” “beautiful,” “phenomenal,” “stunning” …

And who would blame me?

🙂

Kwana is all of those and more. So very much, wonderfully more. They all are!





Purple clouds = rain

2 04 2017

Kestrel, Terra and Comanche; Brumley Point.

It did. 🙂 Rain, that is.

Love, love, love, LOVE the moisture!