Tenaz wasn’t nearly as thrilled as Mysterium with his time in the wind-machine glamour-shot spotlight. … But he’s SOOOO handsome – how could I resist?!
Caught in the wind
15 05 2023Comments : 14 Comments »
Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Happy Mother’s Day!
14 05 2023
To all the beautiful, wonderful mothers out there who support their children – theirs by blood and theirs by love – and who raise us up to cherish our mothers! 🙂
Especially to my mom, thanks for passing on your love of horses. 🙂 Thank you for being my mom! I love you – see you soon!
Some current Spring Creek Basin wildflowers for moms:
Evening primrose is starting to appear in numerous locations. Like the sego lily, the primrose seems almost too delicate for our desert environment.
And of course, perennial favorite (see what I did there?): prince’s plume. 🙂 Recently, I was a little afraid that the prince’s plume that was up had been battered terribly by the relentless wind … but very current plants look very healthy!
P.S. If the sky behind Aiyanna and Bia looks a bit grey, that’s because it WAS. Within half an hour of that pic, rain was sweeping Spring Creek Basin and lower Disappointment Valley! We need it BADLY, so it was a wonderful Mother’s Day eve gift to us all.
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte, Wild flowers
Energy blocker
13 05 2023
Juniper appears to wonder where Mysterium gets her energy to forge ahead on a sunny, windy day in the east pocket of Spring Creek Basin. Sometimes, I know just how she feels.
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Whither goest thy path?
12 05 2023
Different secret forest! Different band!
Still gorgeous. Miss Cassidy Rain. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
In the secret forest
11 05 2023
You didn’t know we have a secret forest, did you?
OK, it’s really not that secret; it’s a narrow little forested strip on top of one of the lower ridges. I adore any pix I’m able to get of the mustangs in a treed setting because it’s so rare to find them in a treed setting! It does sometimes make them a bit hard to spot (yay for the greys!).
The dapply light was lovely on Kestrel’s emerging dapples … emerging as she sheds her winter coat for her summer finery.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Side-eye
10 05 2023
Little Mister Maiku found a swampy place to roll. 🙂
How DOES he see through that marvelous forelock?!
After the crazy, muddy winter, we are super dry again. But there’s water in numerous places this spring in Spring Creek Basin, and the wild ones know where to find them all.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Time but a moment
9 05 2023
If you look closely, you can see a mustang grazing at upper left. If you look a bit closer, you might be able to see that this old juniper is growing out of a (crack in this) sandstone boulder.
This grandmother tree certainly made sure to send up many fingers through the available space(s).
This is the view from the other, downhill, side … and it’s the view that got me interested in walking up to investigate further. Bit of a grumpy-rock missing an eye, eh? And I looked, but no Excalibur did I find also buried within the stone.
Think of the seasons and years and heat and cold this tree and this stone have witnessed, together. And the stone likely thinks the tree is just a wee, youthful thing.
As a colorful bonus to this post …
This uber-handsome fellow was not in Spring Creek Basin – or even in Disappointment Valley. He was a good bit farther south (still in Colorado) and stopped to catch the rays along a bike trail where I stopped to gasp and puff … err, catch my breath. I couldn’t believe he stayed still long enough for me to fish out my phone and snap his portrait, but he did, and I was happy as I love these beasties at least as much as I love our horned lizards! It won’t be long, and we’ll be seeing our own Disappointment Valley-native collared lizards.
**Update: I saw my first Disappointment Valley-native collared lizard just yesterday – also while riding my bike, as it turned out. It was MUCH too quick for my full admiration, but temps are warming, and soon they’ll be sunning and lazy.
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Categories : Juniper, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Wilderness
Wind-machine days
8 05 2023
Mysterium was rocking her glamour shots with the wind machine functioning perfectly. …
And then Juniper photobombed her. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Still all that
7 05 2023
Storm, looking at another band stallion … looking all handsome-like. 🙂 The more things change … the less things change?!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Look and ye shall find
6 05 2023
Storm’s band has a knack for staying out of sight in the back-of-beyond backcountry of Spring Creek Basin. Then, just as I’m really putting out the effort to find them – not just “casually” looking for them – they appear, in the best-most-beautiful place.
Because of course they do. 🙂
Despite our recent unsettled weather, rain remains elusive (nearly as much as Storm’s band).
(Storm himself isn’t actually in the above pic, but don’t worry, he’ll make an appearance here soon.)
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 