Be kind.
Wish
31 08 2025Comments : 12 Comments »
Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Nature for the win
30 08 2025
That’s rain beyond Tenaz. 🙂
It wasn’t in the forecast. Of the previous six days that had rain chances, we got rain only one of those days. The rain yesterday was *wildly* variable, even just over Spring Creek Basin. Some places didn’t anything; some got something.
We’ll take anything, anytime. 🙂
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Rain, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Untouched by drama
29 08 2025
This pic of Dundee was taken before the rain. She was very calm, almost napping, watching some drama below between a couple of stallions. It makes you wonder what the mares are actually thinking when they watch the boys. … And most boys think *girls* are dramatic. 😉
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Clearing
28 08 2025
Storms don’t last long here; rain showers don’t linger. The sky clears quickly.
Usually.
The above is the eastern horizon beyond Spring Creek Basin from not very far below the western rimrock boundary as the last storm (Tuesday morning) cleared. The rain was in the morning; the pic is from early afternoon.
Wowza.
Mustangs were grazing below me, but I couldn’t get them in the view until Buckeye had a chat with Maiku.
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Categories : Colorado, Disappointment Valley, Filly Peak, McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Damp
27 08 2025
It may not look very damp, but it was – after a quarter of an inch of rain that morning! McKenna Peak and Temple Butte were wreathed in clouds (very unusually) until early afternoon, and this doesn’t capture that, but Tenaz is the star of the show anyway. 🙂
That gives us 0.35 inch of rain (Friday afternoon and Tuesday morning), which is more than we’ve gotten in about three months? At least. The ground still is pretty dry under the top layer of dampened soil, but it has to help the vegetation (and the water catchments, too).
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Categories : Filly Peak, McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
‘Rain is a good thing’
26 08 2025
There are places where the horses drink where they also can roll and get muddy, but I like to hope that Cassidy Rain’s “adobe coat” (thank you, Sue!) is from anywhere in the whole wide basin that got rain on Friday. The damp ground didn’t last long, but it was a relief, nonetheless.
(Thanks to Luke Bryan for the title of today’s post: “Rain IS a good thing“!)
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Rainy day girl
25 08 2025
I waited out the rain before going out to see the ponies. The ground was still damp (it soaked into the parched ground very fast, and the ground was still very dry beneath the very shallow damp earth), and there was a bit of rain in the far reaches to the southeast and back to the west-ish. That’s not Temple Butte beyond Temple in the rain, but it looks similar/familiar in the haze of the rain (which is SOOOOO much better than the haze of dust and smoke!).
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Categories : Rain, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Rain, delight
24 08 2025These pix are from sunset Friday:
Virga and rain (see it at lower center-ish against the far ridge?) from Spring Creek Basin looking west/southwest toward the far southwestern ridge(s) of Disappointment Valley.
Saturday:
It rained. 🙂 ACTUALLY rained. And for at least an hour (in at least some places).
OMG, the relief. … The gratitude.
It started with thunder and lightning, though, so hopefully the nearly immediate rain put out any fire(s) that may have started. …
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Categories : Chrome's Point, Colorado, Disappointment Valley, Filly Peak, Rain, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek canyon, Virga
Shady girl
23 08 2025
Rowan was already in the shade of the south side of the canyon and the western rimrock boundary, so her beautiful palomino coat seems a bit washed out in this image with the vibrant and still sunlit canyon wall behind her. … But she still looks every bit as beautiful as she is!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
‘You shall not pass!’
22 08 2025
Flash channels Gandalf in a brief little chat with another young (bachelor) stallion at sunset.
The message was received, and Flash didn’t even have to battle a balrog! (Apologies to non-LOTR people.)
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 