Hot to trot

11 10 2023

Maiku bypasses the photographer on his way to chat with an interloping bachelor.

He was so intent, he forgot to chew his stem of galleta!





Paired

10 10 2023

Houdini has a new stallion.

Flash has a mare. 🙂





Here’s looking at you

9 10 2023

Last week, some folks visited Disappointment Valley from Ohio and Colorado’s Front Range, respectively. It was wonderful to show them the mustangs and a little bit of what I do in this great wide wonderful yonder. For two, it was their first visit. It was the second visit for the third, but because of very damp weather last time, we didn’t have the opportunity to get into Spring Creek Basin to see the mustangs.

Not only did we get in the basin this time, we had a wonderful visit with one of the bands.

As photographers do, we ended up photographing each other with the horses in the background. I will say that he did a much better job of catching me with the horses than I did of catching *him* with the horses (mostly because I was photographing the horses, and only when I swung my lens over did I catch him looking at/photographing me!).

Probably not many readers have any idea who this person is who’s photographing these mustangs and writing the (few) words for this blog, so with gratitude to friend James, here’s me:

The second pic, of course, captures the better subjects. 🙂





So proud

8 10 2023

Right you are, mama Aiyanna, to be proud of your beautiful baby Bia!

She’s gorgeous, just like mama. 🙂





No worries

7 10 2023

Mysterium is squinty-eyed with the sleepies on a wonderful autumn evening under Temple Butte in Spring Creek Basin.

It was a night for layers! We’ve had a low temp in the 30s now in the basin and low country of Disappointment Valley. Gettin’ nippy.





Brimming with good health

6 10 2023

Doesn’t Maiku look healthy and well-fed?! Such is the bounty of autumn in Spring Creek Basin. 😉





Blue-hour gold

5 10 2023

Bluey Temple looks gorgeous in her muddy bits and all that delicious, delightful, divine grass, with the last light glowing on the western rimrocks.





Grey, all grey

4 10 2023

Storm and two of his mares look toward sunset just after the sun had dropped behind Knife Edge.

It’s October, but it still sort of shocks me that the horses are starting to grow their winter coats. How did we get to this (wonderful) time of year again? We ARE enjoying the autumn loveliness!





Two of a kind

3 10 2023

Lovely, lovely, lovely. Truly. 🙂





View of a different color

2 10 2023

Readers may have noticed that there were two blog posts yesterday. That was a bit of a goof on my part; instead of scheduling “A hole in the clouds” for today, as I meant to do, it published immediately – literally.

But I think it worked out in a typically atypical way. For today’s post, a look at Disappointment Valley from the top down. Not all of it, of course; most of the valley is around the bend. 🙂

In the foreground, Gambel oak, turning gorgeous shades of red and orange. We don’t have it down-valley or in Spring Creek Basin where the elevation is lower, so it’s nice to see the touch of color at the upper end. Pretty soon, the cottonwoods all along Disappointment Creek will be turning gold. Though the creek doesn’t run through Spring Creek Basin, we have a handful of cottonwoods in the basin. Maybe I’ll get lucky and see some ponies near some cottonwoods this fall.