I’m outta here

11 03 2024

This is what passes for Winona signalling that the visit with the weird human is at an end:

All photos presented in the order in which they were taken in a couple of fractions of a second. 🙂





Blue sign of spring

10 03 2024

This isn’t the first mountain bluebird I’ve seen, and it won’t be the last; there are sometimes great flocks of them winging and zipping and darting around the region right now. It WAS the first to settle semi close enough for me to “focus” on it (please forgive the lack of focus) and click the shutter so I could share his handsomeness with all of you. Winter may not have favored us this year, but spring is inexorably on its way.





Hmmm, she says

9 03 2024

Photographed with still-winterized greasewood between us, I’m about to get the one-ear treatment from Winona, too, as she considers her options for moseying on or staying where she is. She eventually moseyed on, giving me the head shake in passing. I’ll have a pic of that in a future post.





Patient

8 03 2024

If it seems as though most of the mustangs are napping in recent pix, you’d be right. That wind. … It’s exhausting. Maiku watched his pals check out a water source, but it wasn’t very appealing, and they walked on to find a better drinking spot.





Still well fuzzed

7 03 2024

Oh my gracious, isn’t she the loveliest!?

I’m glad she’s still fuzzy; maybe there’s still hope for us to get some more winter this winter.





One-ear interest

6 03 2024

His band was grazing up the hill to the (my) left (his right). I don’t know what held the interest of that one wayward ear. My interest, of course, was all on handsome Sundance and the magnificent background of his home world.





‘Medicine hat’ mudder

5 03 2024

Now THAT is how you roll in the post-snow mud!

Piedra sets the bar high for all rollers. 🙂





Nature for the win

4 03 2024

Well, will you look at that!

Please pardon my pessimism and enjoy my gratitude that Mother Nature came through for Disappointment Valley and Spring Creek Basin (specifically). We got 2.5 inches (or more or less, depending on actual location) of the good, wet, white stuff Saturday night into Sunday morning!

It took a bit longer to melt this time than the half-inch we got last time, but by mid-afternoon, this, too, was reduced to ground-quenching mud. And that was perfectly fine. The wind continued … not as awfully as the day before but enough that it still tries to leach that desperately-needed moisture.





This-deep mud

3 03 2024

Just enough for Maia to roll over and be semi-immersed.

With any hope, our mud quantity will increase this morning.





Desert boy

2 03 2024

The topography of the land where Buckeye and his band were grazing the other day was always slightly downhill of where I needed to be to get that nice background of rimrocks and La Sal Mountains. So it was hard to get it all within the frame of my long lens. But of course I had to try. 🙂

Buckeye did his best to accommodate my photographer’s request.

We have another chance of snow/rain in our Sunday forecast. It’s not a huge chance, but we need it hugely.