La Sal Mountains | Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Walking into the night

28 11 2022

Rowan and her band make their way to the original water catchment in Spring Creek Basin on a recent soft evening.

We have had more than two weeks again of dry, dry weather (which has been helpful for things like finishing the new water-catchment project), but we have a very good chance tonight of SNOW into tomorrow. After those nice little rains/snows earlier this fall, our dirt is turning to dust again, so it will be good to see the land covered in the glittery white stuff, with moisture that seeps slowly into the thirsty soil. Even in the high deserts of Colorado, we look forward to winter’s life-giving snow!

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For love of a place

20 11 2022

Every day is a day of thanksgiving in Spring Creek Basin. … Maybe we appreciate it just a little bit more when quiet is restored after a time of chaos. 🙂

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Layers and layers and layers

3 11 2022

In the high-desert mountain country, mustangs are … perfect.

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Fading days

29 10 2022

Is it weird that during these shortening autumn days, we wish for longer days to take in all the beauty?

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Just so

8 10 2022

Chipeta had finally deigned to look up from her grazing to pose with Utah’s La Sal Mountains in the background … but the shadow cast by the setting sun from her hip was right on her face at about eye level. I was hoping she’d lift her head just a fraction of a bitty bit, so I could at least see her eyes … when she turned her whole head to look at a band mate behind her.

Ahhhhh. Beautiful. Click. 🙂

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A little bit of perfection

20 08 2022

Bands taking advantage of good grass and good, clean water at Spring Creek Basin’s main/original water catchment (tank at far left, trough just a bit to the right of it).

This is looking basically northwest … rain falling over Utah’s La Sal Mountains and monsoon clouds shading part of lower Disappointment Valley. There’s a hint of green in them thar hills … and for that, we are grateful beyond words.

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Categories : Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Rain, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon, Water catchment

Half-grey, 2

12 05 2022

The mud does show better on a very grey mustang. 🙂

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The curious case of the half-grey mustang

10 05 2022

Sundance has been doing a bit of, er, mud-dipping lately, it seems. 🙂

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Not a sight we like

6 05 2022

This image is from the evening of May 4. I’m not sure whether it’s in far western Colorado or actually in Utah. Also not sure whether it’s a prescribed burn (I can’t imagine, in these dry, windy conditions …) or nature-caused … or from someone careless with fire in these dry, windy conditions.

People are out and about after winter “confinement” (which isn’t that terrible here in the hinterlands, so close to accessible desert regions!?).

I would have this message for all those I see camping and zooming up and down and around in their side-by-sides and other vehicles: Please be careful of what you leave in your wake. Some people and many more animals live in the places you choose to visit.

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