Just about everything is shown in this one pic – just about everything I love: Mustang (and there are more in the yonder) and that horizon that always lets me know I’m home after any amount of time away.
As always, I wonder what the horse sees/thinks as he looks out on that view, those places he knows intimately as a true, wild resident of that vast, wild land.
Skywalker drinks from a tinaja in a rocky drainage in Spring Creek Basin. The water must have collected from the last rainfall, last week, and this clever boy has found it.
“Tinaja is a term originating in Spain (Spanish for clay jar) and used in the American Southwest for surface pockets (depressions) formed in bedrock that occur below waterfalls, are carved out by spring flow or seepage, or are caused by sand and gravel scouring in intermittent streams (arroyos). Tinajas are an important source of surface water storage in arid environments.
“These relatively rare landforms are important ecologically, because they support unique plant communities and provide important services to terrestrial wildlife.” ~ from Wikipedia
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 