We got more rain Thursday. 🙂
Buckeye and his band knew exactly where to find relatively fresh water trickling down this rock arroyo, where it fills pools and puddles and tinajas along the way. I LOVE seeing the horses find new water. It doesn’t last long, but the fact that it’s there is, really, just cool.
The perspective is weird, but this is looking DOWN the rock arroyo. The bright part is the reflection of clouds in the water of a tinaja in the rock.
This looks like a bigger scene than it actually is. It’s actually only a couple of feet from the little “waterfall” – which is only maybe 6 or 8 inches tall? – to where I’m holding my phone along the little rock wall on the left. Is it cool or what?! (It looked a lot cooler in reality; it loses something in translation to still image.)
This twin-trunk cottonwood is downstream from the rock arroyo. I wonder how far under the soil surface is that bedrock? Not far downstream is another cottonwood, still very green-leaved!
It doesn’t look it, but all that ground is very nicely damp to downright muddy.
Another gorgeous post-rain day in Spring Creek Basin. 🙂
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I know where this is, TJ, one of my favorite places in the Basin, especially since there’s a cottonwood there. 😁 Hiked to that location a couple of times and it IS very cool but even more so with all that water! Thanks for these beautiful photos; it’s like being there.
I figured that you would know where this is, Sue. 🙂 I love that cottonwood, and right now, it stands out like a signal beacon in the basin!
Love all the great pictures of the landscape, and of course cool dude Buckeye!
I love it when the land looks more *rich* than just “plain, dry brown.” And of course, Buckeye always is the best model! 🙂
I’m not sure who is more excited about the rain / ponds / creeks ‘running’ – you or the ponies ! They’re probably not showing it but sure hope they get their fill ! Mother Nature has dealt the basin a good hand !
Water is *LIFE*! Especially here in Spring Creek Basin. 🙂 You’d better believe I’m excited about it. Ha! I wish it had been spread a little more generously throughout the growing season, but ya can’t have everything, and Mother Nature is getting more finicky with her wayward children …
Fascinating tonia’s! Handsome Buckeye.