From bright blue skies to white-out blizzard! Mother Nature actually came through for us yesterday afternoon. 🙂
I was in about the center of Spring Creek Basin, and the snow was coming from the eastish/southeastish for probably two hours, and I was despairing of it ever getting really to us (“us” being a form of the royal we, meaning the horses – and me in their midst). At precisely 2:45 (I turned my phone on to look), the leading snowflakes started flying with the wind that had started pushing maybe 15 or so minutes earlier.
Fairly quickly, the ground went from dry and brown to showing kabillions of snowflakes to having collected so many individual snowflakes – blown by the horizontal wind! – that the ground was white. The horses were collecting nearly as much snow on their coats and their manes and forelocks and faces as the ground. It doesn’t show super well on pale Rowan, but I should have some more snow-pony pix over the next couple of days (by Monday, we’re supposed to be enjoying 60-plus-degree temps!).
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 
yay for the snow! We’re out of state but hope we got some up on the West Dolores 🤞
I bet your area up the West Dolores got hit with some good snow, Randy. Friends lower have reported 3 to 5 inches. 🙂
Rowan is a thing of beauty in that snow…which is also a thing of beauty! We finally got some of that too, TJ. It was really scarce yesterday all day, just wind and squalls and pitiful spits, and I thought: here we go again – just bluster and no snow. But last night the real stuff arrived and this morning we have two inches! Just like you, we are so very, very grateful. Hoping for more in the coming weeks after this weekend’s premature spring! 😁
The snow situation was so crazy. From about the corrals down-valley, not much to hardly any snow at all. Up-valley got probably at least an inch and more? Very grateful that a lot of it seemed to hit most of the basin, at least!
So glad for the snow! What a great picture of Rowan, she is one pretty gal!
Always grateful for the snow … and hopefully there’s more to come. 🙂 Rowan got frisky and decided to kick up her heels in the snow to keep up with her pals! I was glad to be there to capture her in motion!
I love this photo! Snow globe pony is so fitting.
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