It really is that divinely beautiful right now. 🙂
Top to bottom: Temple. Madison. Temple photobombing Madison. 🙂
Mustangs in Spring Creek Basin, which is part of Disappointment Valley but does NOT include Disappointment Creek, along which you can see the glowing cottonwoods snaking across the distant landscape, headed west.
(Disappointment Creek currently is as dry (well, muddy, as I type this during intermittent rain waves) as Spring Creek … maybe with a few more puddles along its considerably longer length. But it generally runs from … February? Ish? Into July if we’re lucky. That’s enough water to (mostly) support the cottonwoods along most of its length. Spring Creek runs only when there’s a major rain event. We have a couple of cottonwood trees in Spring Creek Basin (I think I can count them on one hand and have fingers left over), but they’re in higher drainages that may not get more flow (?) but might get more rainfall. The cottonwoods seen in the distance in the above images are along Disappointment Creek outside/west of Spring Creek Basin.)
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 
Those cottonwoods are looking beautiful, TJ! And fall cottonwoods + gorgeous mustang ladies = perfect!
Between typing and scheduling this post and this morning, we got rained on. Again. And hail/graupel, too. It wasn’t nearly as much as the rains a couple of weeks ago, but it flooded everything again. There’s likely to be more erosion damage to the roads and arroyo crossings. ALL the creeks and arroyos ran with crazy water. Amazing! It would have been cool to see the water flowing through those colorful cottonwoods – that’s something you don’t see every day (year)! – but I wasn’t getting out in that downpour! 😉
That is incredible, TJ! And wonderful! We got zippo out of that last visit from the clouds but I’m glad it rained out there! The mountains had a good dusting of snow too!
Beautiful fall pictures of pretty gals and cottonwoods! Love the golden colors!
They really are as gorgeous as any aspen grove … just a lot smaller and more isolated! 🙂
Loving those Cottonwoods! Gorgeous here too! Celebrating the moisture which brought the rivers up. Tiny bits of snow in the mountians-good sign for more soon ??
“Celebrating the moisture”! I love that, and yes, we certainly are doing that! I hope we have a good winter!