Maiku, a bachelor following a band, gives another bachelor the stink eye.
Walking out to visit them, I crossed several arroyos – all of which had clear water trickling through the bottoms. Wow. Even this wonderful winter, that’s a remarkable thing here in the desert, and it deserves to be remarked upon!
Very full pond in Spring Creek Basin.
🙂 <– all smiles –> 🙂
After a full day of rain, rain and more drizzly rain, we are soggy. 🙂
This pic of sleepy Tenaz was taken last month. Access to the basin is difficult lately. In the very best way!
No, it’s not what you may first think.
Flashbacks, anyone?
If your first thought was “fire-smoke-cloud,” who could blame you? But that’s just a regular ol’ cloud (yes, a rather big one). Moisture-filled, over the Colorado mountains, in March, our wettest month.
Wow. It looks good, huh? 🙂
Imagine those white specks as translucent rain – in fact, leave all the white out of the equation – and that’s what it looks like around here these days. 🙂
We have gotten moisture to the wazzoo-th degree! We are SO grateful. I was so, so very worried almost all of last year. This year, already, I am so relieved and hopeful for good growing and flowing months to come.
*Note: Extreme laziness was employed in the photographing of these elk. 🙂 I pointed my camera and aimed through the passenger-side window of my vehicle while stopped on Disappointment Valley Road; they were in Spring Creek Basin. There may have been 20 to 25 or so.
I stayed with them for a couple of minutes, taking photos, then went on my way to let them go on theirs. Trudging through the mud can’t be any easier for them, even with their long legs, than it is for humans (hence my laziness in the vehicle ;)).
Melted, pal.
Don’t worry. More is on the way. 🙂 (Rain first, though!)
For just a little while, Disappointment Valley looked like this again.
The temp was so warm, the ground so wet, that snow melted within a few hours. And it left more, more, more moisture!
Hollywood’s band and Comanche’s band make tracks in the snow from an arroyo that held – despite the below-freezing temp – actual, slurpable water in its slushy depths.
Again the disclaimer that these photos were taken a week or so ago; the snow pictured is all lovely moisture in the ground now (meaning, it has melted!). 🙂
We had nearly a day yesterday of not-white wet stuff – aka rain. 🙂
Days like the one pictured above, just a week or so ago, are days of the (very) recent past.
Days like that could come again. After all, it’s March in Colorado, and March in Colorado is typically the wettest month in Colorado. 🙂
Moisture is moisture, and we in winter Colorado love moisture because it means summer Colorado – particularly in our high-desert southwestern corner of Colorado – will reap the benefits.
More rain is in the forecast. 🙂
And the wind is howling … !
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 