No rain, but it’s about time. We’ve had a long, hot, dry year, and we’re ready, Mother Nature.
Bring on the rain!!!!!
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Remembering the heartbreak of the nation today, 9/11.
Rainbow season?
11 09 2025Comments : 9 Comments »
Categories : Rainbow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Racin’ the rain
6 09 2025Cue the angels:
As I was wandering the desert (seriously), hoping that tonight (which was last night) would be the night the clouds would part and I would get to see the moon rise … the clouds DID part, and a rainbow DID shine! I ask you: How does that happen!?!? 🙂 I’m not complaining, mind you, but Mother Nature is a wondrous, mysterious creature.
And then, this:
My desert wandering paid off!
If I ever get those glorious scenes with a gorgeous mustang right in my foreground, I’m going to keel right over without being able to hit the shutter even once, probably. 😉
This was the last night to get the moon rising with the sun only very recently set. When the moon is actually full on Sunday (happy lunar eclipse if you’re on the other side of our world from North America!), it’ll be rising in a dark sky.
But last night, as I walked away (OK, I might have been doing as much of an Olympic race-walk as I possibly could with a camera pack on my back, binoculars in the case on my front and carrying a monopod that really is not a hiking stick), THIS was hustling me along (and yes, there was lightning):
See the moon rising above Temple Butte and McKenna Peak and submarine ridge at lower right?
Conclusion: Sometimes the rainbows come and go well before the post-sunset rain. 🙂 (And I think the valley got fairly widespread (though light) rain!)
Happy, happy!
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Categories : Colorado, Disappointment Valley, McKenna Peak, Moon, Rain, Rainbow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte
Seen around Disappointment
12 06 2025The scenery to be seen around Disappointment Valley is NEVER a disappointment!!!!!!!!!
Rainbow over Spring Creek Basin from the Disappointment Valley road. … See the double? Unfortunately, we didn’t get any rain out of this one.
Sunset was just about (or more?) dramatic! This is looking eastish; the cloud-glow is from sunset behind me.
And this pudgy little jackrabbit posed for me right near the road with some reflected sunset light giving him/her a lovely glow. 🙂
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Categories : Colorado, Disappointment Valley, McKenna Peak, Rainbow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte, Wildlife
Pony gold ‘n treasure
5 06 2025
Think shooting rainbows is all, well, rainbows and unicorns?
Those “unicorns” have minds of their own that don’t often consider “posing” for two-leggeds to be part of any kind of their wild plan whatsoever.
I’m still on the hunt for what I consider a *perfect* (OK, even somewhat close) mustangs-under-the-rainbow shot. 🙂
Tenaz helped a bunch. Thanks, buddy. 🙂
Oh, and although it was NOT raining over Spring Creek Basin whatsoever anywhere (it was either virga or far up-valley beyond the basin’s boundaries) when we had the rainbow (as usual, which, I know, seems odd and unusual, except here (!?!), where it’s completely and totally normal), the rain came with sunset. 😉
We’re dancin’ a little bit with a lotta joy!
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Rain, Rainbow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Magic bow
17 09 2024
From above Disappointment Road looking up-valley – Spring Creek Basin from about mid-ground at left to background. The magic treasure under the rainbow.
We got sprinkles but nothing spectacular in the rain department … unless, of course, you count the rainbow glowing ahead of the rain. 🙂
**** Update: Around 5 a.m., we got a *spectacular* thunder-and-lightning storm that brought the rain in toad-gagging torrents. Every arroyo and creek in the valley is surely rolling and roiling. Catchments hopefully have gotten much-needed infusions by the gallon.
Wowza!!!!
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Categories : Brumley Point, Disappointment Valley, McKenna Peak, Rain, Rainbow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte
Progression
5 07 2024
I mean, wow, right? Does anyone doubt this latest proof of magic in Disappointment Valley (or on planet Earth?)? 🙂 That was absolutely as wide as my cell-phone camera could go; the rainbow was (seemed to be) right above me.
As usual, the rain forming the prism of the rainbows fell in the atmosphere, but not much actually made it to Earth.
And after sunset, this was the storm to the southeast. Only in a video clip was I able to catch the lightning bolts. Time between first and third photo: about an hour and 15 minutes. (And that rain didn’t make it to my location, either. I’m not greedy, but it’s still annoying to have rain *that close*! :))
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Categories : Brumley Point, Disappointment Valley, Filly Peak, McKenna Peak, Rain, Rainbow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 