Smoke and dust make the sky grey. Red Seneca is greying slowly – except for that white spot on her hip. Such a pretty girl, leggy and beautiful.
Desert dance
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Flagged
22 03 2013
Love. The. Tail!
Baby Seneca and mama Chipeta trotting past away from bachelor Copper. I have it on good authority that Seneca’s big brother, Asher, does the same tail-flagging, strutting trot. 😉
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Fabulous family
19 02 2013
Chipeta with the iconic unnamed promontory behind her. Some girls wear braids or dye a lock of hair; Chipeta is following mustang fashion with the twig accessory. She is a trendy girl.
Ty, looking all dapply and handsome.
Baby Seneca taking a nap.
Mama and daughter, watching a truck drive by on the road down the hill.
I don’t think I posted these, taken a few weeks ago. Such a sweet family.
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Mimic
4 02 2013
Seneca carefully watches daddy Ty graze the choice grasses still available through the snow. Pictured is – I think – sand dropseed, prevalent throughout the basin.
Mini me with daddy. Nearly identical stances, which isn’t all that unusual, but it’s CUTE!
Mmm hmm. Cute. 🙂
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Looking out for baby
29 01 2013
Daddy Ty, like most stallion daddies, is a very good daddy! Seneca likes to hang out with him. I love his stance of casual protection while baby girl grazes right beside him. Mama Chipeta grazes contentedly in the background.
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Kisses in snow
28 01 2013
Baby Seneca is about 4 months old now. Still giving mama kisses. 🙂
Note the lack of snow on the hill in the background. This weekend, we got rain – RAIN! In January! But we do not complain about moisture in any form, even though it has left the area a soggy, sodden, saturated, simply wonderfully wet mess! Hopefully the great amount of moisture will seep into the thirsty earth before the cold returns and turns mudville into ice-central!
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Baby news
16 01 2013Speaking of late babies, this little girl, born Sept. 23, is doing perfectly well!
Baby Seneca with mama Chipeta.
Baby Seneca with daddy Ty.
She IS a daddy’s girl.
Seneca with mama and daddy.
We got some good snow a few days ago, and most of the basin has quite a good cover. Now it’s cold – sometimes bitterly cold – under the crystal-clear sky. But the horses have thick, rich, furry coats, and they’re in excellent shape!
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Daddy’s little girl
20 12 2012From last week:
Daddies love their babies, too. Ty and Seneca (mama Chipeta is leading just to the left).
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From tragedy …
15 12 2012
Tragic, senseless heartbreak. Unimaginable to think about what drove anyone to do something so horrific.
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Categories : Advocacy, Seneca, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
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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Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 