Napping in the lap of white

21 01 2023

By the time the sun reappeared from the snow clouds, Tenaz and Skywalker and Sancho and the band had settled into naps. That sunshine *does* feel remarkably warm, especially after a blizzard wave!

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Date : January 21, 2023
Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte

18 responses

21 01 2023: Sue E. Story (07:38:15) :

That sunshine does look good – napping weather for mustangs. Such a pretty photo with those snoozing ponies and abundant snow!

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21 01 2023: TJ (17:47:26) :

There’s nothing like that Colorado sunshine on pristine, fresh snow!

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21 01 2023: lovewildmustangs (09:24:52) :

Looks like a happy lazy moment. Hope they got a good snooze in.

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21 01 2023: TJ (17:48:05) :

They were still snoozing when I left them. It was very peaceful. 🙂

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21 01 2023: Pat (09:42:12) :

Burrrr! Beautiful snow. The boys.resting.

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21 01 2023: TJ (17:51:03) :

It *was* cold, but it’s so odd how I rarely feel it when I’m out with them in the beauty. 🙂

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21 01 2023: Karen Schmiede (10:20:08) :

They look very content!

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21 01 2023: TJ (17:56:30) :

They really were. 🙂

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21 01 2023: Martha Kennedy (12:22:40) :

Beautiful in that landscape. The sun shining here feels so good today and we got freezing fog last night.

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21 01 2023: TJ (17:57:25) :

Oh, I’ve seen that crazy freezing fog in your valley before – with CRAZY way-below-zero temps! Beautiful … but my gosh, it was COLD!

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21 01 2023: Martha Kennedy (18:23:29) :

It got down to 0 last night. The fog was pretty high, but dropped down to decorate one of my lilac bushes. The first time I experienced it I felt like I was in wonderland. As I walked beneath some cottonwood trees with my dogs, the frost fell on us. Neither last year nor so far this year have we had the cold the valley is capable of.
21 01 2023: TJ (18:34:55) :

It was in February last year that I was hauling horses through there. … White-knuckle doesn’t begin to describe it. The temperature dropped into the MINUS TWENTIES. We stopped for the night! Gorgeous with that freezing fog the next morning … but I’ll never forget that experience – and don’t ever want to repeat it!
21 01 2023: Martha Kennedy (18:43:53) :

I forgot about that!!! It happened around the Crane Festival last year too, that’s around the 10th of March every year. The Alamosa side gets colder temps than we do, usually. When I was looking at houses people tried to discourage me by telling me about the cold. They didn’t know I don’t mind it. Now I know how many people leave this valley — most who can. The climate is part of it and the lack of opportunities another part. The fact that I’ve been here 8 years seems to be meaningful to people. It’s like, “She seems OK, let’s wait and see.”
21 01 2023: TJ (18:49:52) :

We stopped in Alamosa for the night. Were fortunate to find some great people who allowed us to park two trailers at their place overnight. They seemed to take the temps in stride (the people, let alone the horses), but brrrrrrrrrrr! … I think people didn’t think I’d last as long as I have here, either. 🙂 You must like it to be there so long!
21 01 2023: Martha Kennedy (18:58:38) :

I love it here, and that’s fortunate because I don’t think there’s anywhere else in the country where I could afford to live right now! This place fills my soul somehow. I did a painting of the Refuge 2 years before I’d even been here. It’s flawed but it’s home. I used to spend part of every winter in Montana with my mom and then her sisters, and that kind of cold was often part of that world, too. It wasn’t strange to me when I moved here. My ONE regret is that I didn’t understand where I would be and what it was. If I had known that, I’d have brought Brownie T. Horse and bought an acre or two out of town so he could have lived out his life with me. But I didn’t know.
21 01 2023: TJ (19:06:38) :

Disappointment is home to me in that way – the home of my heart. After moving all my life (Army brat and then … just wandering!), this is HOME. It was always the place where I felt *grounded*. … Long before it became my home. 🙂
21 01 2023: Martha Kennedy (19:09:26) :

I love your posts because of the horses but maybe equally because of the landscape. 💚
21 01 2023: TJ (19:40:11) :

There’s something very compelling about this place … and with the mustangs, the magic shines through. 🙂