In the high-desert mountain country, mustangs are … perfect.
Layers and layers and layers
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
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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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
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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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
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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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
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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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
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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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Utah, Wildfire
Windy, dusty days
25 04 2022
Colorado spring = strong wind = dusty horizons.
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Admiring the view
17 04 2022
Mustangs and light and Spring Creek Basin in Disappointment Valley … all the way to Utah.
Perfection!
From their birth-range of Sand Wash Basin, within sight of Wyoming, to Spring Creek Basin, within sight of Utah, Dundee, Rowan and Aiyanna have come a long way … and continue to live wild and free. 🙂
Renewal of seasons, affirmation of wild.
Happy Easter. 🙂
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Speedy wanderers
15 04 2022
More pronghorns have visible recently. I love to see these fleet-footed “speed goats.”
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Pronghorn, Spring Creek canyon, Wildlife
