Young Hayden with elder Duke. From a recent visit … just me, the horses and about a million hunters.
Hey-Duke
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Categories : Duke, Hayden, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Do you see me?
15 07 2013Yes, handsome Hayden, all eyes are on you!
This young mister has filled out a lot this year. He’ll be 4 in September. He’s a stout little hunky red boy!
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Ghost
10 07 2013An accident of camera settings resulted in this image of Apollo and Hayden that I decided I liked. It can represent just about anything you want it to. Clearly a horse. Clearly a horse in motion. Sometimes, that’s enough.
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Categories : Apollo, Hayden, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
(Un)ruffled
14 04 2013The wind was ruffling their manes and tails and forelocks, but they – Hayden, indeed – were completely unruffled by our presence.
Hayden is not pictured in this lineup because he had started walking up the road to where I had stopped the Jeep.
From left: Tenaz (almost 3), Apollo (almost 2), Killian (!) (almost 2) and Aspen (probably 11+).
A couple of visits ago, Killian was not with mama Roja and her band (Storm’s band, which includes Gaia and her daughter, Cassidy Rain). I hoped he hooked up with the bachelor boys; he did! Aren’t they the picture of innocence in the pic above? 🙂 Killian appears to be an “off” shade of bay because he will turn grey, like his sire, Seven.
And, because I can’t leave him out, and because he was posing so handsomely for my friend Nancy, who was lying on the ground to photograph him, Mister Hayden:
Love, love, love his heart-star. From the cutest baby to quite a handsome young mister, this Grey/Traveler son is filling out very well.
As you can tell, it was a pretty windy day. Rain is in the forecast; all dances, finger- and toe-crossing welcome!
Our friend Ann also was with us for a visit to the horses. We saw Shadow and her baby girl (and Seven and Puzzle) but from a very great distance.
I also want to give a shout to friends Sue and Roy, who also were visiting the horses. Roy was the first to spot last year’s first foal of the year AND named her: Mariah. What a gorgeous girl she is growing up to be.
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Categories : Apollo, Aspen, Hayden, Killian, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Tenaz
-8 and be there
20 12 2012Not quite as iconic as Galen Rowell’s oft-quoted “f8 and be there” – nor, I suspect, will it become as universal. But at minus 8 degrees this morning, I was there, in the basin, in paradise turned white.
Seven in winter’s wonderland.
Kootenai and Mysterium
Hayden and Tenaz
Hollywood’s band walking away from the noise of a truck. What kind of crazy person would be out here on a minus-8-degree morning?
Oh, right. 🙂
Aurora with her band. For extra credit, name the horse in the background attached to those gorgeous stripes! (Aurora’s daddy, Bounce, whom she resembles so strikingly, is following the bands.)
The temperature didn’t get above about 22 degrees today. Snow-lasting temps. I love it.
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Categories : Aurora, Hayden, Kootenai, Mona, Mysterium, Piedra, Seven, Shane, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple, Tenaz
Fire and shadow
26 11 2012Mr. Hayden:
This red boy isn’t missing any groceries, either! He’s always with Tenaz and Apollo, and on this evening, Aspen and Seven (previously featured) were with them.
What a handsome young mister he has become!
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See ya!
14 09 2012Took some friends into the basin. Saw Comanche’s and Hollywood’s and Bounce at a distance. Grey/Traveler’s band offered us a great visit right off the road! Then, as we were headed to the northwest valley to check for bachelors, here they came! We stopped in a near tunnel of trees and got the cameras ready. They came right up the road, then around and past us through the pinon/juniper!
Too fast! Too many trees! But I snapped this one of Hayden just before he dashed through the trees and out of sight:
Showing off that big mustang trot!
And just like that, they were lost in the trees.
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He’s touching me
11 09 2012This photo of Tenaz and Apollo cracks me up:
Tenaz, standing his ground but leaning so far away from Apollo, rubbing away the flies on his pal’s shoulder.
Two of the young misters handsome. Had a great visit with these boys. So silly. So awesome!
Apollo gives Hayden a schnuzzle.
That Apollo. What a lover. 🙂 And who can resist kisses for the boy with the heart on his forehead (who has a birthday coming up soon)?
Three words: Trouble. Times. Three.
And one more word: CUUUUUUUUUUUTE!
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Categories : Apollo, Hayden, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Tenaz
Boys on the go
8 09 2012These boys were moving across Wildcat Valley the other night while I was visiting Comanche’s and Hollywood’s bands.
Seven, Bounce, Kreacher, Aspen, Apollo, Tenaz and Hayden at sunset.
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Categories : Apollo, Aspen, Bounce, Hayden, Kreacher, Seven, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Tenaz
Yet another atypical stallion photo
5 09 2012I love seeing these moments. 🙂
Comanche and Hollywood grazing peacefully with their families nearby.
That’s the foreground story.
Note the background story.
Kreacher and Hayden sparring. They were with Seven, Bounce, Tenaz and Apollo.
Youngster testing his strength.
Very end of day.
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Categories : Comanche, Hayden, Hollywood, Kreacher, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs