
Juni Juniper, my glorious girl.


Tenaz prepares to greet another stallion in defense of his family. I do love a gorgeous bay mustang!
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Happy birthday to my very excellent dad, Dave! My love of horses is all his (and my mom’s) fault. 🙂 And they’ve encouraged that love and supported my horse-centric pursuits my whole life (while maintaining their own herd of horses!). Thanks, Dad. I love you!

Did someone say cooler temps and rain?
Gaia and her bandmates are tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiired of the heat and dry. (Sure, OK, that’s me dropping my human thinking and emotions onto them, but c’mon, we are ALL tired of the heat and the dry!)
Starting today, our forecast looks pretty good in the temperature and rain departments. Crossing fingers and hooves.

Chipeta shows off her fashionable flair for spreading the love. And I’m pretty sure she’s universally loved.

The mustang equivalent of drawing a line in the sand (or the shadscale, as it happens).
I wouldn’t mess with Maiku; would you?!

My beautiful Cassidy Rain, you can (try to) hide, but you can’t hide behind a spindly juniper tree, dear girl! 🙂

All the heat rising into our local atmosphere is finally starting to rouse some rain clouds over the region – very scattered and random.
Now we just need those clouds to drop some rain.
Above, Maiku might have been enjoying the temperature drop when the clouds built up and the wind picked up. After a high of about 99 degrees, I sure was!

Another pic – of Skywalker this time – that deserved to be seen, though our skies very thankfully are no longer as smoky.
He was waiting around the edges for his turn at the water trough when he struck this handsome pose with Spring Creek canyon’s rimrocks in the background.
The smoke did make for some interesting light, but I think I’m not alone in preferring our clear blue skies.