Golden girls in golden light above Spring Creek canyon.
Like mother, like daughter
30 11 2023Comments : 11 Comments »
Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Survivor
29 11 2023
This handsome fellow was spotted a couple of days after the end of fourth rifle season. Some does were nearby. He wasn’t too interested in posing for pix. … I’m just glad he hid himself away the last couple of months.
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, Mule deer, Wildlife
Sundancin’ the sundog
28 11 2023
I keep telling ya’ll there’s magic out there. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Swing
27 11 2023
The snow has melted from the lower elevation ground within Spring Creek Basin and lower Disappointment Valley, but here’s another fun snow pic of Chipeta. Her stallion was interested in keeping her with the rest of the band … that’s a young bachelor, with a small group of young bachelors, foraging in the background.
If you look closely, you can see snowflakes against Chipeta’s brown patches. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Season’s first snowfall
26 11 2023
McKenna Peak (background) has gotten snow before this, but the main parts of the basin haven’t gotten (sticking) snow until now (yesterday). A lot of it has already melted its wet-snow goodness into the thirsty soil. Now cooooooolllllllldddddd temps the next few days.
The ponies are fuzzy and ready for winter!
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Autumn colors
25 11 2023
Subdued and muted at the end of the growing season (well past the end, one might argue), but beautiful as we head into the season of cold and white (we hope).
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Walkin’ on
24 11 2023
End of the day … the horses were already in the shade of the western ridges while McKenna Peak and Temple Butte were still catching the last light. Tenaz was marching along, and I took a grab-shot from the window of my Jeep.
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Happy Thanksgiving
23 11 2023
Today, of all days, give free rein to your gratitude.
We should not forget or ignore or make light of the devastation happening in many parts of the world currently, and in our own parts of the world, we should do all within our power to make things better and brighter for those around us. Hate and ignorance should not rule.
In my quiet, mostly peaceful (hunting seasons from second to fourth (currently) have been not so peaceful …) valley, it’s easy to count my/our blessings every beautiful day – and there are many to count, starting with that very peace.
On this Thanksgiving Day, I hope commercialism is the least of your concerns and the blessings in your lives are the most – and I hope they are many.
I am grateful for my family; their support means everything to me.
I am grateful for friends who are like family.
I am grateful for my mustangs – they fill my heart every single day.
I am grateful for my home and my kitties in this most beautiful of wild places, surrounded by mustangs.
Not least, I am grateful for you readers and lovers of these Spring Creek Basin mustangs. 🙂
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Perspective
22 11 2023
Sometimes the key to an intriguing image is to just keep clicking. 🙂 Temple, photographed through the legs of her stallion.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
My, oh my
21 11 2023
Cassidy Rain is notoriously hard to photograph. As gorgeous as she is, she doesn’t like to pose; she’s too busy eating or ignoring the photographer. 🙂 But with snow lingering on Temple Butte and McKenna Peak (out of frame to the right), I had good incentive to try to catch her, you know, looking gorgeous. Unfortunately, the sun had winked behind a cloud just at this moment, so with her in the shade, the background blew out a little. But you get the idea. Gorgeous and gorgeous-er!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 