The green, green grass after rain

7 07 2016

Sundance, McKenna Peak

Some of that green stuff is edible, which Sundance knows and is taking advantage of!





Aligned

27 06 2016

Hollywood and Maia, McKenna Peak and Temple Butte.

Sometimes … they all line up beautifully. 🙂 Hollywood and Maia complement McKenna Peak and Temple Butte.





Big red

22 06 2016

Hayden

Classic Spring Creek Basin mustang; classic Spring Creek Basin horizon.





Takin’ in the view

31 05 2016

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Handsome pony … stunning view of McKenna Peak and Temple Butte across Spring Creek Basin.

Yep, must be mustang country.

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Happy post-Memorial Day! Thanks to our vets for your service!





Red-haired girl

4 05 2016

Tesora, McKenna Peak

 

It wasn’t the gnats that had Tesora in a seeming funk – too cold and windy. Maybe she was self-conscious about her beard (probably not). 🙂 She, like all the horses, are shedding quickly.

Although we didn’t get as much rain as anticipated, we did get temps – daytime temps – in the 30s (and yes, some big, heavy flakes of snow that added to our ground moisture). But now Colorado weather predictors are marching us toward 80-degree temps.

So April did, indeed, end with lovely showers; now we hope May brings flowers – and lots of grass!





Classics

25 04 2016

Alegre, McKenna Peak, Temple Butte

 

Oh, lovely Alegre, how we do love the wind in your hair.





Blowin’ on by

20 04 2016

Juniper and Mysterium, McKenna Peak and Temple Butte

Blame it on the wind that blew Juni right into Myst’s super exciting (as you can see) photo shoot.

But I love the way they frame the bottom of a heart around two of Spring Creek Basin’s most beloved landmarks: McKenna Peak and Temple Butte. (That’s salt coming through the soil on McKenna Peak’s eroded flanks; that’s lingering snow higher in the P-J woods of Temple Butte’s ridgeline.)





Temple, Temple

6 04 2016

Temple, McKenna Peak and Temple Butte

 

Temple and Temple Butte – and McKenna Peak – when we still had some snow. Pretty girl in pretty country.





Power of landscape

7 02 2016

Chrome, McKenna Peak and Temple Butte

 

The magnificent Chrome beneath the icons of his home range: McKenna Peak (pyramid-shaped) and Temple Butte (prominent protruding promontory).

Does any wild horse range equal Spring Creek Basin for beauty? Well, that’s a bit of a trick question! And I may be a wee bit biased (never!)!





Pretty … soooo pretty

4 02 2016

Gaia, McKenna Peak, Temple Butte

Sometimes, really, words fail.