We definitely have snow – and mud when the sunshine starts working on all that snow. 🙂
The important part of that is that … we definitely have SNOW, which is to say that we have moisture.
It is SO good to have moisture. I’m sure Temple would agree!
That’s not a trick of the light, and unless you’re completely distracted by the lovely Gaia, you see the snow on McKenna Peak and the snow on the ground at her hooves.
That’s right, folks: For the first time in more than a very long month and a half, we got snow. Moisture, in any form, is extremely much super very totally needed this winter, and although it wasn’t a whole heckuva lot, it was *something* … and we need a whole lotta wet somethings. News broke this week that “the megadrought gripping the American West is so severe that it’s become the driest two decades in the region in at least 1,200 years – and drought conditions will likely persist for years.”
Yikes. (And a bunch of other swear words.)
The snow dampened the excruciatingly long dust trails raised by vehicles on local roads, but by mid-afternoon, those local roads were dry or nearly so. In potentially other good news, next week brings some more chances for snow. Please keep your fingers crossed for us, and dance a dance or two. 🙂
There’s a whole lotta brown out there in Spring Creek Basin these days. And because these days are in February, that’s a cause for a fair bitta concern.
Fortunately, we have Hollywood to liven up the scene. 🙂
With the light and color, Seneca almost seems camouflaged, eh? Except that she’s much too beautiful to simply “blend in”!
Dundee, Rowan and Aiyanna, our Sand Wash Basin beauties, are very much at home in Spring Creek Basin. They’re still with their stallion, Buckeye, who is a laidback kinda guy.
Doesn’t she have the sweetest face and prettiest eyes? So engaged and curious.
While she and her bandsisters were in the shade of the hill that falls northward from the rimrocks, Temple Butte and McKenna Peak and Spring Creek Basin’s eastern ridges were still lit by the setting sun.
Just a coupla beautiful mustang girls, napping in the winter sunlight. 🙂 Piedra and Kestrel have been friends since Piedra was young and Kestrel even younger (a baby!). They haven’t always been in the same band, but they have been for the last several years.
This is a short throwback on the calendar – 10 days or so. McKenna Peak doesn’t have nearly that much snow on it anymore. We’re closing in on a January with only one day of snow – the first day of the month/year – and nothing since then.
But does Corazon worry about it? Nope. He’s probably glad to not slog through the hoof-sucking mud. 🙂
Raven likes to hide behind other ponies. But there’s no hiding that clever sparkle in her eye!
Mr. Blue Eyes always looks so nonchalantly handsome.
Don’t blame him.
He just can’t help it. 🙂
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 