Chipeta picks her way down the slope toward a deep arroyo that held water from the last storm’s melting snow. They like the liquid that must taste fresh and crisp!
I think sometimes the pintos show their fuzziness best of all the horses. And Chipeta looks just about ready for winter. 🙂
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 
Love those fuzzy pintos!
Cold temps are coming, so all the ponies had better be ready!
She is gorgeous in her winter apparel! This is such a bright, pretty photo, TJ.
She wears the light and her winter coat beautifully. 🙂
Nice warm coat!
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Very warm, which should protect her when the temps plunge into the teens the next couple of nights.
Let’s hope very fuzzy!
They’re sure getting there. The colder it gets, the fluffier they floof! 😉
I’m a ‘sucker’ for horses and how they look, no matter the season – fuzzy/fluffy for winter – scruffy/patchy spring shedding of winter coats – sleek and glossy in warm, frisky, frolicking springs/summers – dull, dusty in blazing heat/drought, muddy/protected when heat and rain both show up – to me, left to their own devices with access to get what they need, when they need it? In both Abundance and Glory days vs. Survive the Hard Times? Give ’em wide open spaces and freedom to roam – they so often soldier on, survive and are beautiful to my eyes, in all their various seasonal ‘fashions for this year’ – 😀 This is probably why I am always confused by human fashion and seasonal collections made… they often seem…um….unable to meet needs of real humans – in the wild – LOL
They don’t need us … and yet, fenced in and managed on certain locations as they are, they do, in a wide sense. Hopefully, they – collectively, the wild – will outlast us humans.