Lovely, lovely, most lovely Temple.
Really?! What else do you say!!?
Loveliest of lovelies
22 05 2023Comments : 10 Comments »
Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
The nose knows!
21 05 2023
For your morning chuckle, you’re welcome. 🙂
Shane grazing, while Odin was feeling playful.
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Passing by a passerine
20 05 2023
Speaking of “bright eyes” (yesterday’s post wishing I could see more of Sundance’s eye through his forelock), this little fellow’s bright eyes are literally masked by his markings, and in the overcast light, they weren’t bright enough to reflect light (at least from the distance at which I was in my Jeep). I heard him rather than saw him and backed up to hear more!
He’s a loggerhead shrike, known for impaling their prey, all the better that it doesn’t get away while feasting!
Handsome little songster!
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Wild birds
Foxy
19 05 2023
Some mustangs have evolutionarily developed longer ears – the better to hear danger with – but Sundance’s little ears, poking through his thick mane and forelock, are decidedly foxy. One of his many endearing attributes!
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At rest
18 05 2023
A little green, a little gold. A little black, a little white. Our Corazon.
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Out of the wind
17 05 2023
To continue the grey theme, pretty Mariah looks curious but not as wind-blown as her name suggests. Her band was in a little cove on the north side of a long hill, and they were quite happily grazing and napping there.
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Playing catchup
16 05 2023
Terra catches sight of her pals in the band she and her stallion travel with, across a little drainage on another ridge. Time to catch up! (Love her still-present winter beard. :))
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Caught in the wind
15 05 2023
Tenaz wasn’t nearly as thrilled as Mysterium with his time in the wind-machine glamour-shot spotlight. … But he’s SOOOO handsome – how could I resist?!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Happy Mother’s Day!
14 05 2023
To all the beautiful, wonderful mothers out there who support their children – theirs by blood and theirs by love – and who raise us up to cherish our mothers! 🙂
Especially to my mom, thanks for passing on your love of horses. 🙂 Thank you for being my mom! I love you – see you soon!
Some current Spring Creek Basin wildflowers for moms:
Evening primrose is starting to appear in numerous locations. Like the sego lily, the primrose seems almost too delicate for our desert environment.
And of course, perennial favorite (see what I did there?): prince’s plume. 🙂 Recently, I was a little afraid that the prince’s plume that was up had been battered terribly by the relentless wind … but very current plants look very healthy!
P.S. If the sky behind Aiyanna and Bia looks a bit grey, that’s because it WAS. Within half an hour of that pic, rain was sweeping Spring Creek Basin and lower Disappointment Valley! We need it BADLY, so it was a wonderful Mother’s Day eve gift to us all.
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte, Wild flowers
Energy blocker
13 05 2023
Juniper appears to wonder where Mysterium gets her energy to forge ahead on a sunny, windy day in the east pocket of Spring Creek Basin. Sometimes, I know just how she feels.
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
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