Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Most beautiful boy (Storm).

Hollywood seems to have settled into a fairly regular area with abundant grass (!) and water not far away. Another band or two are often in the area. He seems content and doesn’t seek to be with them at all.

He’s thin, still. … More thin than I’d hoped to see him at this point in late summer. But he’s still doing all right. The big open wound on his hip is closed but for a slight grey scar. His right (injured) eye is open more than it was, but I’m still not sure how much sight he has in it.

I hung out with him for a fair while and talked to him, and he didn’t seem to mind my company and prattling on. The grass was too good to worry about a mere human, maybe. After I left him, I looked back, and he was still peacefully grazing and swishing away flies. On go his days.

Kestrel, of course, is golden in any light, at any time of day.

I did take care on my hike out and back – as I usually do – to step on bare ground and not the valuable green growing grass. It’s amazing how much is out there all of a sudden with the wonderful rains.

No time to draw out the big camera, but these ponies were good enough to hang out next to the road while I aimed my cell phone in their direction. Wonder of technology meets natural wild. What times we live in. 🙂

No matter how many times he gets run off from the main band, Skywalker keeps coming back around. Family can be prickly … but there’s a place for them all. 🙂

Storm puts some *oomph* behind his assertion that another stallion’s presence isn’t welcome. The other stallion got the message.

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Happy 90th birthday – !!!! – to my good friend Roy, who grew up in Disappointment Valley and still comes to see the mustangs in the spring and in the fall. I think Storm would agree with me that Roy is always welcome, and any friend(s) of his are friends of ours!