This is Skywalker. … He’s due to foal in about a month.
🙂
Just kidding! He’s a stallion, of course! 🙂
Our ponies are in great shape. We still (always) need rain, but what we got has given a nice little boost to the grasses, and the mustangs are chasing it with gusto.
It’s rare that I’m out in Spring Creek Basin during the middle of the day, but I couldn’t pass up sharing this pic of hunky Tenaz following the band while keeping away his current nemesis, Skywalker. In any light, he’s a handsome boy!
Rowan and Dundee indulged my recent wish of getting a pic of the horses going after the rain-juiced new grass. Some of that is cheat grass, but there was a lot of grama and galleta, which are native warm-season grasses. It’s so nice to see them able to indulge what must be their own wishes of fresh grass!
The rest of the sky was cloud-free, so Ma Nature used her paints and went a little wild just there. 🙂
It may not look a lot greener, but we had a big rain over the weekend, and I swear you can see the grass growing. 🙂
Skywalker looks as though he’s earned a bit of a nap in the shade of a big hill with a grand view of a developing storm east of Spring Creek Basin.
Buckskin Kestrel would have you think she blends in perfectly with her environment, but the truth is, her environment complements her as the beautiful creature she is!
Photographers love stormy conditions. Is it any wonder?
Am I right?
A bit wider perspective.
Mustangs were around, but they were not as cooperative as a person could wish with that amazing background ever-changing. 🙂
Flash and his band were grazing from the still-sunny side of the bowl to the already-shady side of the bowl (what I call the series of open areas between ridges in the far northwest). I was uphill of them, which made it hard to also capture the very faint rainbow in the southeastern sky. And this was quite a bit later from the first two pix.
Gaia lingered longest (thanks, girl), but she mostly gave me butt shots (thanks, girl!). 🙂 This one shows more of the rain-mist behind the rainbow.
And a last image from nearly last light … just a hint of a prism in a couple of sections in the sky at right. I mean … stunning!
We’ve gotten a few little rain waves the last couple of days. “Rain” might be overstating things a bit, as they’ve been really more like 10- to 15-minute drizzles. The ground soaks up that moisture incredibly quickly, and it’s dry very soon afterward. But we’ll take it, and the night I took the above images, I found a pond with water. Actual water. 🙂 Joy!
Zowie America! That LIGHT!
The rainbow would start to form farther south/right not long after these pix were taken, as the storm was passing to the north (left) and dissipating. It never did grow to either blazing brilliance or a full arc. The left side was even more faint than the right side (which also was trying to double-arc), but if it had fully arc’d, it would have been HUGE.
No rain on us, but chances are better through Saturday?!
No rain, but it’s about time. We’ve had a long, hot, dry year, and we’re ready, Mother Nature.
Bring on the rain!!!!!
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Remembering the heartbreak of the nation today, 9/11.
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 