Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Trotting – not to be confused with tweeting – Maia moves up the hill to follow her band during the day of the eclipse.

Comanche was smart to protect his eyes during the eclipse by hanging out under a shady juniper. 🙂

Killian does love his sunflower dessert. 🙂

Beautiful grey girls Maia and Houdini stand amid grass and four o’ clock flowers.

So much beauty.

Check out Kwana’s right ear. 🙂

Yeah … our mustangs are sooooooooooo starving, and our range is soooooooooo destroyed.

Note No. 1: Extreme sarcasm above.

Note No. 2: That’s native galleta and grama grass he’s eating – and a lot of it.

See tomorrow’s pic for the long view.

Four o’clock flowers.

Elder Duke and four o’clock!

If anyone knows why it’s called “four-o-clock,” please advise. It can be seen with blooms stretched toward the sun at all times of the day. The above photos were taken well past 4 p.m. … and quite a while before 4 a.m. 🙂 Here’s a Wikipedia link. It blooms all day and into evening – at least until sunset!

Except that it was the day of a solar eclipse.

It wasn’t particularly noticeable in southwestern Colorado. The light got a little “weird,” like a high, thin cloud was over the sun in an otherwise mostly clear sky. I didn’t actually look skyward, not having the special glasses, but the weird light lasted quite a long while – 30, 45 minutes?

No blindness was caused in any wild equines within my view (two bands). 🙂 In fact, as far as I could tell, their behavior didn’t change at all.

It seemed quiet … but it’s usually quiet in the basin. The only other thing I noticed was that it didn’t seem as hot as the clear, sunny sky suggested that it should have (our temps have been back in the 90s).

Our day of the solar eclipse was another gorgeous day in Spring Creek Basin. 🙂