It’s hard to hide when you choose this kind of “camouflage.”
Seven, Puzzle and Shadow against the La Sal Mountains.
Background
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Puzzle, Seven, Shadow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Spots and a blanket of snow
31 03 2013
Corazon with Reya and S’aka in their high-desert home of Spring Creek Basin. Utah isn’t quite as close as the La Sals in this photo would have you believe, but it is fairly close.
Note the mud on Reya. The Round Top pond is holding a decent amount of water. Three ducks thought it quite fit the bill, too!
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Categories : Corazon, La Sal Mountains, Reya, S'aka, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Another three
2 03 2013
These three are part of Grey/Traveler’s band, which also includes Alegre and Maia.
End-of-the-day gorgeousity. Is there a more beautiful place in the world? You can’t convince me!
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Categories : Grey, Houdini, La Sal Mountains, Mariah, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Oh! Snow!
19 12 2012Joy. 🙂
The storm that blew over Colorado last night and this morning did NOT miss Disappointment Valley this time. Nor at least part of Utah, based on the above pic of the La Sal Mountains, which actually are northwest of us in the Beehive State. Close enough!
No pony pix (yet). Although it was cold (mid-20s), the snow was wet, and it did create mud of the earth beneath the snow, so I didn’t drive into the basin. After the snowstorm: clear blue beautiful sky. That promises a colllldddd night – and a frozen-road morning on which to (hopefully) access winter mustang paradise!
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Utah
Of horses and mountains
14 12 2012
You can’t imagine this land without them, can you?
That’s Asher’s mama, Chipeta, and his little sister, Seneca. In the background: Filly Peak (within Spring Creek Basin, Colorado) and the La Sal Mountains (Utah). The snow on the mountains is from the last snowfall that left just an inch in Disappointment Valley. More coming – today?! Our fingers and hooves are crossed!
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Categories : Chipeta, La Sal Mountains, Seneca, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
In front of our eyes
29 04 2012
Every little wild girl should have a little mountains in her background. 🙂
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Gilded
10 04 2012
Chrome in the golden light of early morning.
Hayden and Terra – half-siblings. Daddy: Grey/Traveler.
Chrome was highlighted so gorgeously against the far hills, just-gilded with first light.
Alert Winona, watching something in the distance that I couldn’t see.
Gorgeous stallion, perfect backdrop … and he paused in his grazing only to amble to the next tasty tidbit.
Still gorgeous. Still perfect. 🙂
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Categories : Chrome, Hayden, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Terra, Winona
Miss Shane
24 03 2012Has a new family.
The last time I saw her, she was with mama Mona and stepdaddy Aspen. Seven was nearby, as were Roja and Killian, but from the distance, I couldn’t quite tell whether he had them or was just hanging out close-by in hopes of *getting* them. Bounce was fending off lone Storm (which made me think perhaps David has reclaimed Shadow), and Duke, Kreacher and Tenaz were nearby.
Now, flirty girl is with … guess who!?
Do you recognize the pretty grey girl in the foreground?
The La Sals have some nice snow after the last storm, but they seem to be losing it day by day with this warm, dry, windy weather (ah, spring!).
Calling her “flirty” is anthropomorphism, of course, but before Hollywood, I’ve seen her “flirting” with Grey/Traveler and Sundance – always returning to mama, though. She turned 1 last Sept. 1.
She looks quite a lot like Aspen, not only because of her color but because of her conformation. Mona cannot be related, but I wonder about Kreacher (Shane’s sire).
Stout little mustang girl!
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Categories : Hollywood, La Sal Mountains, Piedra, Shane, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Silver and snow
12 12 2011And a million other colors, too.
Baby Aurora nuzzles mama Alegre … whose dredlocks grow ever longer. The ends brush over the sage and saltbush when she grazes.
Talk about a splash of color! Against the glare of sunlight and snow, from a distance, she looked as black as ‘Rora.
With sister and mama.
It’s not an easy thing, photographing a wee black girl against a big white world.
Easier to shoot white on white!
Especially sprinkled with a dash of copper color!
Pale girls stand out against far blue hills.
She looks serene but for the settling toss of her mane! Caught a pause while she was rolling.
Isn’t she shiny and gorgeous? Looks so much like daddy Bounce.
Beloved boy is taking excellent care of her …
… of them all.
Silver, shining.
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Categories : Alegre, Aurora, Corona, Gaia, Grey, Houdini, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Storm Shadow
11 12 2011On a bright and shining day. 🙂
Shadow and Storm. They were waiting for Aspen’s band, who were apparently waiting for Sundance’s band to drink down in the arroyo. Shadow would get impatient and wander away. Storm would turn his head to look at her, then go back to watching the other horses. Patience of a … wild horse, that one. 😉 No sign of David, though Duke and Kreacher were not too far to the west, and Bounce, Tenaz and Seven were together far to the northeast. (They were fairly close together last week, all together, a bit east of this location.)
She’ll be 5 in the spring. He’ll be 4 the end of July.
Shadow against the La Sals (which are in Utah, this east, Colorado side of Moab).
He stood on that ridge for a long time, watching and waiting, His ridge falls away to a little bench above the actual arroyo, and I’m on the other side of it. We’re about in the heart of the basin right here.
I love how furry and handsome and shiny they are!
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Shadow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Storm
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