Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Pretty Cassidy Rain is getting in her daily steps up the east-west hill on a hazy winter evening in Spring Creek Basin.

P.S. Happy leap day!

Sundance. Of course.

Ooooooooooh, that wind made the day COLD. Doesn’t the day look peaceful from the photo? Sure. … Except that Mariah’s tail is blowing sideways. 🙂

It wasn’t too bad, except that in a moment of seasonal misjudgment, I wore my summer hiking shoes instead of my winter hiking boots, the ground being completely dry and all. But it was my hands – under two pairs of gloves – that got a bit chilled. It IS still winter, after all. Even if Ma Nature seems determined to dry us out.

Well, it’s still dry. We got less than a tenth of an inch of rain the night before last, and the ground and roads were dry before I got out with the horses.

In good news, the dry allows me to see lots of horses. 🙂

We got some drips and dribbles of rain last night. I’m glad for that much.

We have actual, honest-to-goodness wet stuff in our weekend forecast. The percentages are pretty good … but we’ve seen our chances evaporate (!) before – most recently … pretty much all this winter.

Cross your fingers for us. We have actual, honest-to-goodness dust happening already (already!), and we need some moisture.

My folks were in Colorado recently for a too-short visit. Of course, we visited mustangs. Though they left horses at home in Texas with an able caretaker, really, you can never see too many horses in a lifetime, no matter where you wander. 🙂

Thank you to everyone who sent comments to our BLM folks during the scoping period for Spring Creek Basin’s HMAP revision. We sure appreciate your time and effort on behalf of keeping our mustangs, like Cassidy Rain above, healthy, free and wild!