A deep blue dry winter sky highlights both Temple and Temple Butte and McKenna Peak behind her. All in alignment as we kick off the new year.
Speaking of “alignments,” if you haven’t seen somewhere that the Year of the Fire Horse is upon us in the Chinese calendar, you might not be up to date on all the data that’s data to be seen, according to your phones and/or social media and/or whatever algorithms are at work (!). It starts Feb. 17, and according to Google’s AI feature, it symbolizes “intense energy, passion, and transformation, following the previous Wood Horse in 2014. People born in Horse years are often seen as independent, adventurous, strong, and enthusiastic, embodying the animal’s spirit of freedom, vitality, and perseverance, making these years auspicious for bold action and new growth.”
I’m pretty sure I was born in the wrong year; sorry, Mom and Dad. 🙂 That said, I think one of my grandmothers (the horsey one) WAS born in a year of the horse, so I’ll blame her – err, claim her – for my incredibly horse-like traits!
I’ll try to find more information about this exciting development for horse lovers as the start of that zodiac calendar begins. We sure have a lot of models to illustrate all the ways mustangs embody the above!
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 
TJ, I decided to check my birthday / year… 1954, year of wood horse! ,neigh
Karel
How cool is that??! 🙂
“Freedom, vitality, and perserverence.” Yep. That’s our Spring Creek Basin mustang! So, year of the fire horse. Cool!
Very cool. The Internet is abuzz with it (ha – as much as I know, anyway). 🙂 I do hope it means good things for our equine friends, let alone the rest of the world.
Love this photo!!🥰
Paint it, if you like! 🙂
Would love to!! Thank you 🙏
Hope the year of the horse will be good for the wild ones!
I sure do, too. It’s been a lot of mostly bad news the last many years.