Hollywood at moonrise last month. Two consecutive evenings in the basin with the mustangs were amazingly beautiful, made magical with the nearly full moon rising over the far ridges.
Hollywood moon
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Categories : Hollywood, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Boy talk
3 08 2013
Hollywood and Bounce have a friendly chat near sunset.
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Evening sip
28 07 2013
It doesn’t look like much, but they’re drinking in the bottom of the Spring Creek arroyo in Spring Creek Basin. With more moisture comes more irritation in the form of biting flies.
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Categories : Aurora, Hollywood, Mona, Shane, Spring Creek, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
His & hers
16 07 2013
She is his, and in the background is her mama.
Miss Shane will be 3 in September. For perspective, Mister Hollywood is not the tallest boy in the basin. 🙂
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Dashing dun …
14 07 2013… in black and white:
Comanche’s antics made Hollywood’s mane stand on end! It was OK in color, but I really liked him like this.
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Beloved horizon
23 04 2013A quote I saw and liked recently: “We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.” ~ Konrad Adenauer
Hollywood leads Madison, Comanche and Kestrel (and the rest of the bands’ members) away from the roller-coaster ridge pond, where they drank at the end of the day.
This horizon from Spring Creek Basin: Unique and much loved. With mustangs in front of that horizon: Heaven under the sky.
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One (more) scar
16 02 2013
From this week. The cut is fairly small, but like most face wounds, it obviously bled. Most of what you see is just dried blood.
What fun would life be without a scar or three?
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A stallion’s moments
15 02 2013
From last week. Comanche ran off Bounce from near Piedra, Temple and Aurora, then Hollywood came from where he was grazing with Mona and Shane and ran off Comanche, then he went after Bounce. (No stallion likes to be caught napping on the job, even by his pal.)
The sun had set, but I didn’t want to leave.
Hollywood was cantering after Bounce. I love his look, frozen in a photo, with his head turned just so to catch the last light of day in his eye. He looks like he’s dancing.
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Herdin’ girls
23 01 2013Mona and Aurora were hanging out with Bounce. Bounce is following Hollywood’s and Comanche’s bands. Bounce is Aurora’s daddy, but she’s in Hollywood’s band now. Mona is definitely Hollywood’s mare. They wandered as they grazed, and pretty soon, Mona and Aurora and Bounce were on one side of a shallow arroyo, and everybody else was on the other side. Hollywood looked and grazed, then looked and made a decision, and he trotted down the hill and across the arroyo, bluffed Bounce away and brought his girls back to the fold.
Even in his snaking attitude, he’s so cute. Look at his nostril all puckered up. I wish I hadn’t chopped Aurora’s ears off, but I was focused on Holls when she trotted up the hill between us.
And that Aurora looks just like daddy … and mama Alegre. She’s really a beautiful blending of both.
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The world according to Kestrel
28 12 2012Pretty buckskin girl Kestrel stood napping in one place during most of my last visit. Watching, too. The world revolved around her.
Hollywood’s band still is very close to Comanche’s band. In fact, the casual observer would never realize these are two distinct families. This dynamic may or may not be unique among wild horses, but it’s fairly unique within our herd (“the pintos” come to mind, only recently separated into Ty’s band and Corazon’s band).
Baby Temple, daughter of Hollywood and Piedra, grazes her way behind Kestrel.
Kes in her wide, snowy world!
Kestrel’s handsome stallion, Comanche.
Mama Kestrel and her yearling daughter (and Comanche’s), Juniper.
Isn’t she gorgeous? Like her mama, Luna, like her firstborn daughter, Winona. (As Winona grows up, it’s incredible how much she resembles Kestrel; her likely sire is Mouse, who was removed last year.)
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Categories : Comanche, Hollywood, Juniper, Kestrel, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple
