Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Storm the magnificent. Even rocking his bizarre mohawk, he’s such a studly stud.

My heart is full.

Sometimes you just need a friend to help you with an irksome itch. Temple and Madison have been best girlfriends for many years.

It doesn’t get much better than sitting in a wild expanse on a summer evening, surrounded by horses, listening to the squeak of grasses being snipped and chewed. Spirit keeps a close eye on me while she grazes next to Hollywood. (Check out his leg stripes!)

It’s our lifeblood, and it keeps us in the *green* of health!

This pic is from a week or so ago. We’ve had some blue-sky days again with smoke just on the edges.

You’re impossible to ignore, gorgeous. 🙂

There might be too much muckety muck along the “shoreline” to truly reflect “perfection,” but how many times could I use that rhyme in a blog-post title?!

And Sundance? Of course, he puts the perfect in perfection, so really, it IS truth in advertising!

It’s been a little while since Sundance has graced this blog. That’s because he likes to wander the far eastern side of Spring Creek Basin, and with the monsoon rains a few weeks ago and resultant erosion in places, it’s been a bit more difficult to access the farthest areas of the basin.

The couple of days before this image was taken, we got an amazing drenching of rain! It’s hard to see, but that’s the Spring Creek arroyo below Sundance, and it was still pretty muddy and mushy from the running water. All of the ponds I saw on my route were FULL. Not just “they have water now” but literally full to the brim. If the initial sightings of the ponds with water was an immense joy, this recent sighting of them all FULL was just incredible!

Sundance and his mare had already made their way to the pond behind me, and in this image, he’s catching sight of another band making their way to their evening drink. Such a seemingly simple thing … which hasn’t been simple at all during our ongoing drought. We are so amazingly grateful for the rain and for the mustangs to have relatively “easy” access to ponds again!