Not so little

21 08 2023

“Little” Odin is getting to be a big boy!

And I saw his daddy last night. He’s doing pretty well. 🙂





Auntie

20 08 2023

Baby Bia has always had an affinity for her “auntie” Rowan. With no foal of her own (yet), Rowan is a cross between mentor and playmate to Bia. They shared this sweet moment after they’d had a drink from a rain-filled roadside ditch, while waiting for mama Aiyanna, auntie Dundee and daddy Buckeye to drink their fill.





A certain swagger

19 08 2023

If Corazon can be said to have a certain swagger in his step, he can be forgiven; he’d just had a chat with a lone bachelor, who didn’t stick around long.





Dappled

18 08 2023

Pretty Terra looks up from grazing to check the whereabouts of her stallion.

Not to worry; he was just across a shallow arroyo, grazing among the pinon and juniper trees.





Golden glorious

17 08 2023

We. Got. RAIN!!!!!!!!!!!

Not just a few sprinkles. Not just a couple of drips making dimples in the earth’s dust. But rain, rain, actual, honest-to-goodness RAIN.

Pretty, very, wonderfully, marvelously, fabulously excellent.

Rain. 🙂

(The above pic is Mr. Storm, before the rain.)





Affection

16 08 2023

Happy 54th anniversary to my mom and dad, Nancy and Dave Holmes!

Horse people through and through and directly responsible for my lifelong addiction (of the very best kind) to horses (of all kinds). 🙂

I love ya’ll!





Ever lovely

15 08 2023

Plump pinto Chipeta in the late light. It’s still dry out, but skies are much more promising. … Rain we need; lightning, we do NOT need!





Girl of fire

14 08 2023

We got rain. 🙂 Just a teeny little bit, but it was enough to dampen the dust and add water to the catchment tanks.

Before that, Gaia looked about as tired of the heat and dry as the rest of us two-legged critters.





Addition of light

13 08 2023

And then the sun broke through and brought color to life.





Greys

12 08 2023

We might be getting closer to a bit of rain. We’ve had clouds overhead and virga on the horizons.

On this particular day, Flash and the sky and hills were all a shade of grey until the sun broke once again through the clouds.

We’re hoping we’re closer to a bit of rain. Surely any day now.