They ARE the view

10 06 2024

Sometimes (OK, all the time), you never know where you’ll find the mustangs when you drive into Spring Creek Basin. And even after all my years of driving into the basin, they sometimes (!) surprise me.

These horses are at the top of Spring Creek canyon, above the rimrocks. It’s not nearly the vertical wall on the other side, where it slopes into a little “bowl” of a hillside, so their approach is easy to fathom. And they must have had a nice breeze up there, keeping the descending gnats at bay, because they were up there for at least a couple of hours (before I arrived and after I left)! And the view – I can attest – is fabulous.





More besties

9 06 2024

Another pair of besties – and for a very long time, at least since Kestrel was just a wee weanling. Piedra has been with her or in a neighboring band for many, many years.





Trio of beauty

8 06 2024

Alegre, Maia and Shane: beautiful, wild, lovely girls.





Her best life

7 06 2024

Wild life agrees with Terra. … Wouldn’t you agree?





Wrapped

6 06 2024

Is it just me, or is Master Odin growing up ever so handsome?!

He already has all his aunties wrapped around his hooves; it’s only a matter of time for some other lucky filly. 🙂





Salty gal

5 06 2024

Spoiler alert: That’s not snow in the bed of the Spring Creek arroyo; that’s salt.

Mariah was crossing the arroyo from one little “flat” slightly above the arroyo to another little flat just above the arroyo in the wider drainage just as the sun was setting, giving her that glorious, albeit dusty, glow.

It is so very dry. Yay, snowpack, but for those of us who don’t live on mountain tops, it’s been badly dry since at least last fall (or earlier? we didn’t get monsoons last year, and I’m despairing of getting them this year).

Dance, folks, like nobody but the rain gods and goddesses are watching! 🙂





Classic mustang

4 06 2024

How is it possible that she’s so gorgeous?!

Because she – Terra – is a mustang, of course! (And mama Houdini and daddy Grey gave her excellent genetics.) She’s standing on a little outcrop above the Spring Creek arroyo where some of the rest of the band are drinking from a little seep.





Late moon rising

3 06 2024

The full moon rose more than a week ago … in fact, almost two weeks ago by the time you read this post.

The satellite dish for my Internet got bumped or knocked or yanked three-plus weeks ago, and I’m waiting for the less-than-“lightning-fast” approach to getting it realigned (and upgraded – might as well, eh?). So the past few weeks of posts have been scheduled well ahead of time at a couple of regional libraries. Other than the delay in my replies to comments, I hope there’s been no lag or delay on readers’ ends in getting the posts or seeing the beautiful mustangs featured.

With any hope, by the time you read this, I will be that much closer to having convenient Internet at my house once again.

This (above) was such a beautiful evening that I thought, even though it’s very late, it’s worth being seen. That’s Shane and Odin in the pic, moseying to catch up with the rest of the band. The sun had already set, and I was getting nervous about the walk back to the Jeep in the potential dark (it IS snake season now, after all). But the moon DID finally rise, and at least some of the horses were fairly cooperative about walking through the scene – as opposed to grazing behind greasewood. 🙂





So close

2 06 2024

This giant claret cup cactus (or cacti in a bundle?!) was amazing, and I tried to get various horses in the same frame with it without success. Alegre wasn’t suuuuuper cooperative in that way, but I managed to get her as she grazed her way from behind a four-wing saltbush – without shaving off part of her face. 🙂





Grey ladies

1 06 2024

These elegant ladies are in neighboring bands that travel together. They are among the holders of the wisdom of the herd.