Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

S’aka grazes the good stuff … which is much more abundant this year. 🙂

Pausing mid-chew, Killian takes notice of a stallion on a hill across a big arroyo, who was whinnying after another band. Threat level assessed, Killian went back to grazing.

I love the way light shines through manes and tails, no matter how tangled and wind-knotted.

Inspiration comes in many forms, and just now, I’m feeling exceptionally inspired by people doing good work for mustangs – and other wildlife – around the planet.

Do an act or more of kindness and love for someone. … Someone you know or someone you don’t! Because love simply must win over the non-love in this world. Why waste a minute on anything else?

The very loveliest Kestrel stops to pose amid sunflowers against a stormy sky. Her band was grazing their way to the top of this little ridge that Kestrel reached first, and she had paused to wait for them.

I don’t mean to start a trend with all the pretty grey horses … but they ARE “pretty” (gorgeous, really), and they are grey! In case you hadn’t noticed, grey is the dominant color of our Spring Creek Basin mustangs because of two grey stallions introduced in the ate 1990s to help keep the genetics of our small herd viable.

Their genetic contribution most definitely lives on!

Alegre and Maia are well-practiced at looking gorgeous in late-afternoon light in Spring Creek Basin, even if Maia wants to look coy about it. 🙂

Wary Chipeta likes to keep plenty of distance between herself and two-leggeds toting cameras. When she grazes, she does it with her butt to me. The side look is a better look. 🙂

While sitting on a fallen tree watching a band, I looked over to see Hollywood watching them, too.

We don’t have many trees in Spring Creek Basin, but the horses occasionally take advantage of the ones we do have. And sometimes, the photographers do, too. 🙂