Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Everybody needs a shoulder to lean on. 🙂

The tawny color of the landscape is getting increasingly bleak, but although Kestrel’s tawny coat is similar, it’s … well, better. 🙂

Sundance and one of his new mares drink at a pond with the day’s last light glowing on them. Look closely, and you can see his mane draped over her neck as she’s drinking from the same hole in the ice at the edge of the pond. 🙂

Grey, grey and brown. Fortunately, the greys help take our minds off the browns!

Pretty days now, though, are gonna make for some hard days to come this summer. …

It’s always good to see a bright splash of color in our brown land. 🙂

This pond is quite a bit bigger than this limited view from the camera shows. Most of it is covered in ice right now, and the horses are drinking from the very edge, which thaws a bit during the day. They help it along by pawing at it to get to the liquid beneath the ice.

It’s one of the most scenic ponds in the basin. 🙂

Well, we got nary a single, solitary flurry, which was a really terrible disappointment. Piedra and the mustangs, living in the mild moments, probably aren’t too upset, but I’m already worried about our summer water.

Maia and Shane look winter-lovely as they make their way to a pond with their family.

It’s so good to have ponds – mostly iced over and thawing during the day at the edges where the horses drink – this winter, as it means we’ll have water in at least the spring. But that brown ground, almost as far as the eye can see (we get no benefit from La Sal Mountain runoff), does not bode well.

A small chance of afternoon snow tomorrow has entered our forecast, and we’re crossing fingers, toes and paws!