Hollywood and his girls Shane and Maia make any scenery look better. 🙂
Facing the wind
11 07 2018Comments : 5 Comments »
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The view, usual
10 07 2018
Terra, again, a couple of days after the below photo/post.
This photo illustrates our usual view: Sunshine in the basin and rain beyond the horizon (McKenna Peak and Temple Butte).
The clouds did eventually cover us that evening – it was the evening of the rainbow – and we got a teeny amount of raindrops. As evidenced by the swirly swish of that stunning tail, the wind preceded the rain by hours. 🙂
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Appaloosa for a day
9 07 2018
Terra wanted to try on some spots, so she did it the mustang way: Mud splashes! 🙂
Each evening for the last three, Ma Nature has teased us with dark-to-the-east/southeast skies … then some stiff wind, then a few drippy sprinkles. Let me put it this way: Terra’s spots didn’t come from rain-created mud. The ground is basically dry before the sprinkles even stop.
This slow buildup is OK … as long as we eventually get something really, really wet … ?!
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The blue we like
8 07 2018
Day after week after month after month after month … of blue skies does get old.
Kwana’s baby blues, however … never get old! 🙂
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Rain, where art thou?
7 07 2018
Sweet Dolly Parton, I have two bones to pick with your lovely quote: “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
1) There’s the assumption there that rain is bad or something to be tolerated.
2) Really, you don’t have to have rain to have a rainbow.* Nearly never do we actually get rain with our rainbows in Disappointment Valley.
GIVE US THE RAIN! PLEASE! 🙂
* Somewhere, there must be rain, given the physics of rainbows. But rain doesn’t have to be falling on you. And, really, we would LOVE to have the rain. The rainbow is just sprinkles to the magic.
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Gold and gold and gold
6 07 2018
Better than saying gold and brown and brown. 🙂
Mother Nature tossed a few drops of wetness at us yesterday. We begged and cajoled and danced for more … but that’s all we got.
For now.
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Minor fireworks
5 07 2018
One drawback of day after day of hot, dry weather is the tendency to lose track of time and dates.
Happy belated Independence Day!
We certainly celebrate freedom on this blog. 🙂
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Barely glimpsed
4 07 2018
This is classic Chipeta: Not quite allowing a full view of her pinto prettiness. 🙂
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Relief in the desert
3 07 2018
Terra and Kestrel drink from an arroyo seep that has been quietly and consistently producing water during these hot, terribly dry days.
Most of the curve of the arroyo is in the shade, and part of it runs into the sunshine. This photo was taken in the late evening, but even during these long summer days, with the sun high overhead, I think this little nook is mostly shaded.
I had been wanting to explore this area for the last several weeks, knowing from previous years that a seep was here, but it wasn’t until I saw Kestrel leading her band that I knew where she was likely headed – and had time to follow them.
Particular note: If the horses had been at all bothered by my presence, I would have left immediately. I spend a lot of time with these mustangs, always quietly and at their direction (paying close attention to their comfort level). This is already a stressful time for them, and under no circumstances would I add to that stress. While I watched from a distance (I have a long lens!), three different bands came to drink. The first band stallion chased away the second momentarily, then the second and third bands drank together. They were still in the arroyo when I slipped away.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Water
All trails lead to water
2 07 2018
This photo is probably pretty self-explanatory. 🙂 It’s an obviously well-used trail that leads to a small area of seeps where some bands are drinking in Spring Creek Basin.
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Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 