The days are still fairly warm; the nights are cold enough for a coat (hair, fur, feather or otherwise!). During the short, sunshine-filled days, if it’s quiet enough, naps are almost a must-do.
Napping warm
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
More than service
11 11 2025
So we may remain a country of free citizens, thank you, veterans, for your dedicated service.
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Chamisa glow
10 11 2025
Could Piedra be any more unabashedly beautiful?
No. The answer is no, she absolutely could NOT! Lovely girl. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Spring girl in fall
9 11 2025
Maia is as pretty in the spring of her birth as she is in the low autumn light with a fuzzy coat and the rabbitbrush already puffy.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Cavorting
8 11 2025
It has been an incredibly busy fall season already. Third rifle season descends on Disappointment Valley (and every other bit of public land in Colorado) today. Apologies to good, ethical hunters, but it is THE WORST week of my year. So partly to set the tone for a hopefully OK week (and a safe one), and partly because I mostly forgot these images (!), let’s start it with some golden eagles.
The above image was taken more than a week ago (on my mom’s birthday, actually!), as you can see by the phase of the moon (wow, has it been BRIGHT!). But see that little speck right of center? That’s an eagle, and THAT is what I spotted that made me stop and scramble to get my camera out of its pack.
Two of the three eagles I saw were flying (cavorting?!) together above Spring Creek Basin’s western rimrocks. I like to think they came flying overhead to see what the crazy two-legged was doing, and I was glad to see them so close in all their majesty.
I love eagles. 🙂
Be safe out there.
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Categories : Colorado, Disappointment Valley, Golden eagle, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Wild birds
Rimlit
7 11 2025
Who *doesn’t* adore backlighting!?
Love her whiskers and the wind-tossed flip of just that one strand of mane. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Super times two
6 11 2025
Can never go wrong with Tenaz and a nearly full moon. Super … both of them! 🙂
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Categories : Moon, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
A lot ta love
5 11 2025
Buckeye doing what Buckeye does: Looking handsome in his wild, high-desert home. 🙂
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Temple moon
4 11 2025
From Space.com: “The November full moon will be the closest and brightest moon of the year.“
Be like Temple, and get out and enjoy it Wednesday night (the above pic was taken Monday evening). 🙂
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Categories : Moon, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Where they are, he is
3 11 2025
Skywalker looks back down at the band from where he’d grazed up onto a hill.
He grazed a bit more, then rejoined them at the base of the hill. The grass may be “greener,” but where the band is … that’s where the (his) heart is. 🙂
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 