November | 2025 | Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Chamisa glow

10 11 2025

Could Piedra be any more unabashedly beautiful?

No. The answer is no, she absolutely could NOT! Lovely girl. 🙂

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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs

Spring girl in fall

9 11 2025

Maia is as pretty in the spring of her birth as she is in the low autumn light with a fuzzy coat and the rabbitbrush already puffy.

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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs

It has been an incredibly busy fall season already. Third rifle season descends on Disappointment Valley (and every other bit of public land in Colorado) today. Apologies to good, ethical hunters, but it is THE WORST week of my year. So partly to set the tone for a hopefully OK week (and a safe one), and partly because I mostly forgot these images (!), let’s start it with some golden eagles.

The above image was taken more than a week ago (on my mom’s birthday, actually!), as you can see by the phase of the moon (wow, has it been BRIGHT!). But see that little speck right of center? That’s an eagle, and THAT is what I spotted that made me stop and scramble to get my camera out of its pack.

Two of the three eagles I saw were flying (cavorting?!) together above Spring Creek Basin’s western rimrocks. I like to think they came flying overhead to see what the crazy two-legged was doing, and I was glad to see them so close in all their majesty.

I love eagles. 🙂

Be safe out there.

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Categories : Colorado, Disappointment Valley, Golden eagle, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Wild birds

Rimlit

7 11 2025

Who *doesn’t* adore backlighting!?

Love her whiskers and the wind-tossed flip of just that one strand of mane. 🙂

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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs

Super times two

6 11 2025

Can never go wrong with Tenaz and a nearly full moon. Super … both of them! 🙂

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Categories : Moon, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs

A lot ta love

5 11 2025

Buckeye doing what Buckeye does: Looking handsome in his wild, high-desert home. 🙂

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Categories : Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs

Temple moon

4 11 2025

From Space.com: “The November full moon will be the closest and brightest moon of the year.“

Be like Temple, and get out and enjoy it Wednesday night (the above pic was taken Monday evening). 🙂

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Categories : Moon, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs

Where they are, he is

3 11 2025

Skywalker looks back down at the band from where he’d grazed up onto a hill.

He grazed a bit more, then rejoined them at the base of the hill. The grass may be “greener,” but where the band is … that’s where the (his) heart is. 🙂

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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte

‘The Last Cows’

2 11 2025

Something a little different today. My friend, writer (author!), rancher AND mustang advocate (and mom and grandma, titles she might be most proud of? :)) Kathryn Wilder has a new book on shelves right now!

Saturday evening, at Mama Bear’s Bakery and Books in Dolores, Colorado, Kat held a “birthday party” for her new book, The Last Cows: On Ranching, Wonder, and a Woman’s Heart.

They had a feast of a spread, Kat’s daughter-in-law served coffee and chai and other drinks the bakery is well known for brewing, and Kat’s sons, Ken and Tyler, and grandchildren, Lacey and Lucas, were in attendance among friends and customer-friends!

Kat read from her new book, answered questions and had folks laughing and commiserating with her narrative prose.

The Durango Herald had a fantastic review recently, and if you are local (or are passing through at the right time), Kat will be doing readings Tuesday evening at Maria’s Bookshop in Durango and Thursday evening at Back of Beyond Books in Moab.

More cows than mustangs, but if you read Desert Chrome and fell in love with Kat’s lyrical writing style and stories from the sage country (and above and below), read The Last Cows. You will NOT be disappointed (Disappointment Valley, get it? :)).