Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Like fine wine, this little treasure gets better with time. (So I’ve heard; I don’t have a taste for alcohol.) 🙂

We all need a moment of comfort every now and then. 🙂

There were two other bachelors with the pictured bachelor, but from my vantage with another band, I couldn’t see them (I had seen them previously, from a different perspective). It struck me how small and also perfect he looked … one more shadow belonging to the land at almost-sunset.

Not all brown is bad brown. 🙂

Tenaz and Madison make brown beautiful!

A little shake-up with a black-and-white pinto boy in the sea of brown. 🙂

Corazon was checking out my Jeep, parked not too far away on the road. So far, things seem to be fairly quiet in Spring Creek Basin this hunting season. There are a couple of camps in the basin, and we’ve seen vehicles driving around and evidence of more (tire tracks on the dusty roads). The horses seem very calm.

The traffic up and down Disappointment Road (which passes along part of the basin’s southwestern boundary) is heavy before, during and after daylight.

One of our excellent BLM law-enforcement rangers was out in Disappointment Valley, making contact and checking on the goings-on. Our herd manager also was present for a few days.

Our wild ones are well watched, and we are grateful. 🙂

As mentioned in yesterday’s post, the snow is gone, gone, gone. My wonderful friend and friend of the mustangs Pat Amthor is visiting this weekend to give me moral support during the starting weekend of the worst week of the year (in my ever-so-humble opinion): third rifle season. The people population is much higher, and it causes stress to this two-legged and all the other four-leggeds in the vicinity.

For the most part, I believe, they do leave the horses alone. Just the sheer increase in humans and their traffic (and trash) is unsettling.

So while we patrol and keep an extra-close eye on things – including visiting the horses and gathering new images – enjoy a couple more days of already-scheduled snowy goodness on the blog. 🙂

That snow is long gone, but let a girl dream about our next storm. 🙂