Skywalker passed his bandmates to find undisturbed water upstream in the Spring Creek arroyo.
The creek isn’t flowing (alas); this is water forced to the surface by bedrock. It WAS enough water to satisfy both his band and two or three other bands – at just about nearly the same time. That’s amazing.
Friends are priceless! (Especially in the spring, especially with those itchy bits that you just can’t reach!)
Dundee and Rowan spent several minutes mutually grooming each other on a very quiet, very lovely and very peaceful evening in Spring Creek Basin while their bandmates grazed.
More Hollywood. … Yes, he was very relaxed on this very windy, dusty, hazy day in Spring Creek Basin. 🙂
These little butterflies are everywhere lately, trying to find our few wildflowers, doing their best to further the pollination in this very dry spring. I didn’t realize I’d caught the butterfly with Juniper until I saw the image on my computer later. 🙂 Both bright spots of goodness!
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Speaking of bright spots, we got a nice drizzle of rain yesterday! I’d love to have more (you know I always want *more rain*!), but at least this bit of moisture will help our grasses and other vegetation, not to mention those water catchments.
As eye-catching as he is, Corazon isn’t really the modeling type. Here, I caught him napping in a scenic location. I call that a win!
Sigh. My boy Storm. Could he be any more handsome!? 🙂
Ah, to be wild and free in such a glorious place. 🙂
By the time I got up on the ridge and had taken my time visiting with and photographing Hollywood, Sundance’s were dropping off the ridge and Storm’s band was about to. So I didn’t get a lot of pix of them, but that was OK. Above is Storm with Gaia and Mysterium before they headed down. I wish I’d gotten a better composition with that balanced rock behind them!
It’s not nearly as steep over the edge behind them as it looks. I moseyed over there as they were heading down, but I didn’t follow them as it was getting late and I had a long walk back.
Quietly waiting and watching Storm’s and Sundance’s bands heading off the ridge. He’d been watching them to his left. … I caught this pic as he turned to look directly at me.
Still a bit lean, still shedding some tufts of his winter coat. Always handsome.
“The ‘hedgehogs’ are blooming!” a basin visitor announced the other day, and although that’s not what I call these gorgeous cacti, I knew exactly what he was talking about.
The buds were tightly furled one day, and the next day, they’re open and ready for their buzzing visitors!
Another sure sign of spring in our desert country. 🙂
You can’t tell by this photo of Buckeye and his mares napping, but the wind was *blasting*. It was a little better close to the ground, but it was *ferocious*. Peace is in the perception, eh? (Bia was just out of frame to the left; at one point, they were ALL lying down.)
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 