Yes, we groom our mustangs before their model photo jams.
🙂
OK, OK. No we don’t. Mariah’s just gorgeous that way. 🙂
Happy winter solstice!
Tangle-free
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The rest of the picture
20 12 2018
Sunset made silhouettes of the horses against ridges very far away, outside Spring Creek Basin. Peaceful grazers, doin’ what wild ones do.
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Happy birthday to dedicated mustang advocate Kat Wilder! 🙂
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Temple Butte forever!
19 12 2018
It’s official! Temple Butte IS Temple Butte!
Just last night, we received word that our application* to name Temple Butte, above Spring Creek Basin’s eastern boundary, in honor of our beloved and much-missed Pati Temple was approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.
We are ecstatic. 🙂
Pati was an integral part of NMA/CO‘s long mission to protect and preserve Spring Creek Basin’s mustangs in a way that sustains both the herd and the range upon which they depend. With perseverance and commitment, our partnership with BLM’s Tres Rios Field Office is stronger than ever, and our horses and their range are beautiful and healthy.
We are forever grateful for Pati’s guiding light, and, thus named, Temple Butte now is a testament to her memory.
The formerly unnamed promontory has its forever name. 🙂 Just in time for Christmas!
*Heartfelt thanks to Ann Bond for her diligent efforts gathering and submitting the paperwork for the application!
** Another aside: Pati is responsible for Seneca’s name. 🙂
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Those boys
18 12 2018
Skywalker and S’aka, famous together. 🙂
S’aka looks even smaller than Skywalker because he’s on the low side of the slope, but he really is that much smaller than big-boy Skywalker!
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Grooves
17 12 2018
Snow has such a lovely way of highlighting the land’s ridges and rills.
Wild horses have such a lovely way of highlighting the magic of the land. 🙂
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Maia in December
16 12 2018
We need more of that white stuff.
Mother Nature and Father Christmas might bring us some just after Santa’s flight. 🙂
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Bestest
15 12 2018
How DO they do it? Standing there looking all handsome like.
Just standing there, GLOWING.
Just standing there.
Wild.
WILD. 🙂
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Beauty in beauty
14 12 2018
Pretty Winona is “snowier” than the landscape. 🙂
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Velveteen mustang
13 12 2018
Out of the clear blue sky (well … ) yesterday, we got a snowstorm! (This photo of Kestrel is from a few days ago, and most of that snow is long gone.)
The squall itself didn’t last very long. The snow stuck briefly to the warm ground, then mostly melted. But it was moisture, and we are, once again, grateful. It’s pretty brown here for the middle of December.
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Hollywood
12 12 2018
All the looks, much of the ‘tude, 100 percent real live wild. 🙂
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Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 