Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

If drought is measured by snow on the mountains (which it seems to be?), then we’re in great shape!

If drought is measured by the lack of rain, snow or other moisture on the land where drought is being observed (which it should be!), we’re in rough shape.

What Corazon knows is that his family is happy, healthy and intact. All is well with his world. There’s something to be said for not worrying about what’s to (probably) come. 🙂

Mysterium enjoys a breezy nap a few hours after the eclipse yesterday. Here in Southwest Colorado, we had mostly cloudy conditions (and we were well outside the path of totality) – with a beautiful full halo around the sun in the morning! I’m not sure whether that had to do with the eclipse or ice crystals in the upper atmosphere, but it was cool.

We didn’t get any moisture, but it might have been snowing over Utah’s La Sal Mountains at various times, and up-valley from Spring Creek Basin and in the higher elevations, it sure looked like it snowed later in the day.

This young stallion is following a bigger band – at a respectful distance. Even from the other side of a little ridge, he keeps an eye on the other horses.

Storm graciously paused in his grazing – though not in his chewing – to give me a long look on a glorious evening. (I love how his long tail is casually draped over a bit of vegetation.) The ground was still somewhat damp from recent moisture, and graupel still held its “ball” shapes in little piles under bigger, sheltering shrubs like shadscale and four-wing saltbush. There was something to love for all of us.

Lovely Seneca on another quiet, peaceful, beautiful evening in Spring Creek Basin. We’ve had a run of these ordinarily extraordinary days – that also happen to be very, mostly dry. Starting today, though, we have moisture in the forecast – for the next several days! If we get even a fraction of the forecast rain, snow or both, I’ll be doing cartwheels (or what passes for cartwheels at my age). 🙂