Yesterday, for a few hours, it looked a little like this in Disappointment Valley and Spring Creek Basin:
Looking eastish toward McKenna Peak and Temple Butte from Disappointment Road.
Looking northish to McKenna Peak.
Temple Butte and looking farther into McKenna Peak Wilderness Study Area beyond Spring Creek Basin.
From Sand Wash Basin to Spring Creek Basin … the common denominator is wild.
Dundee, Rowan and Aiyanna (still with their grey boy Buckeye). Fuzzy, round, lovely.
Three wildly beautiful girls in the most best place. 🙂
P.S. We’re getting rain!
Does this guy know how to strike a pose or what?
Just Skywalker. Doin’ what Skywalker does. 🙂
Terra = of the earth.
So true.
Our fair lady? 🙂
Dark ponies watch a scuffle between their stallion and another band down the ridge and across a seepy arroyo.
There’s not nearly enough snow on the far slopes of Utah’s La Sal Mountains. They rise above deserts in all directions, but they should be gowned in snow by now.
Late-day low-sun-and-clouds backlit silhouette upon a ridge.
One admiring one-other, as we humans so often admire them.
After a not-so-brief discussion of terms over a mare with a neighboring stallion, Kwana trots back to his own mares. Fortunately for the young stallion, though Kwana successfully separated him from his mare, apparently the better part of valor (?!) occurred to him (!?), and he returned to his mares without the acquisition of a new one. The young stallion returned to his girl and made a show of snaking her away up a far ridge and beyond, while Kwana did the same with his girls – in the opposite direction.
I’m all for windbraided tangles and witches’ knots and fairy curls, so how DOES Temple stay so perfectly coiffed!? Not a hair out of place. She’s amazing (and not just because of her show-ready mane!). 🙂
Maiku the mighty returns to his band after a little chat with a fellow lieutenant.
**********
If you’ve been to Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum this year to see the special exhibit dedicated to Colorado’s wild horses in this 50th anniversary year of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, you’ve seen this video. If you haven’t been and you’d like to watch the video, watch it at this link! (And if you haven’t been and are even somewhat local, what are you waiting for? It’s open just through this last month of the year. Next year, a new special yearlong exhibit celebrating some other wonderful resource of our Colorado Plateau region!)
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 