Little bitty pretty muddy girl! Spirit always makes me smile at her sweet self … especially when she’s wearing some fancy new baubles in her forelock. 🙂
Designer jewelry
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Blooming
15 03 2023
What a difference a year makes.
In spite of the snow-heavy winter we’ve had, the mustangs are absolutely thriving, and perhaps no mustang demonstrates this more significantly than almost-3-year-old Rowan, introduced to Spring Creek Basin from northwestern Colorado’s Sand Wash Basin with her mare mates Dundee (4 this year) and Aiyanna (also about to be 3) in the fall of 2021.
A year ago:
This photo, taken the end of March 2022, shows Rowan, in particular, looking a bit lean as a coming-2-year-old.
It’s rare that I have the opportunity of showing some growing contrasts, but I couldn’t be happier with her blossoming. She – and Dundee and Aiyanna – are without doubt wonderful additions to Spring Creek Basin, and I hope they’re happy in their new home (I’m pretty sure that if mustangs understand “happy” as a concept, they are). 🙂
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Stoic
14 03 2023
Windy? Eh.
Two-legged? Eh.
Corazon takes it all in stride.
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Fine beauty
13 03 2023
Mariah gets more grey – and more lovely – with each passing year. 🙂 And still fuzzy as winter winds down.
The horses’ coats are getting that scraggly look that precedes shedding. Spring signs are everywhere.
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Let that ol’ wind blow
12 03 2023
On a very windy day, Piedra and Kestrel napped with Kestrel’s son near the top of a hill in the heart of Spring Creek Basin. Their stallion was lying down napping a short distance behind them, and another pair were napping just a bit below him. Altogether, it was a very good day for a nap!
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Nothin’ wrong with the blues
11 03 2023
Another beautiful face that’s worth walking a long way to greet: Mysterium.
Patches of snow on the far southern ridge is responsible for the pretty bokeh in the background. Like magic fairy lights around the pretty mustang girl. 🙂
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On my way to Mysterium and her band, there was a little of this:
There are still patches of snow in shady places and high (elevation) places, and all that snow is giving way to little creeks and streams in the arroyos. Spring is on the way!
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Behind back of beyond
10 03 2023
If any mustang knows better than Sundance (or at least as well!) how to find the best scenery in Spring Creek Basin, it’s Storm.
This handsome boy and his band have been very elusive most of the winter, and this day was almost no different. According to my GPS, I hiked nearly six miles in my quest to visit him and his family; they were so far beyond the back of beyond, it may as well have been *behind* the back of beyond!
Or maybe, it’s really the front door to the best place on Earth. 🙂
Who are we to argue?!
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At a trot
9 03 2023
So many shades of warm, lustrous, glowing, golden browns in her bay!
Those patches of white in the background are shrinking, shrinking … as the snow melts and the valuable moisture seeps into the ground (or evaporates with that wild wind!).
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Tousled
8 03 2023
With that thick fur coat, ferocious wind may tousle her mane, but it never ruffles Kestrel’s feathers! 😉
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Wind machine
7 03 2023
Two Sundances are better than one. 🙂
I may have mentioned the wind has been fierce?! Who needs fake wind for fabulous portraits of a most-handsome mustang?
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Between the wind, the sunshine and temps in the 50s (practically tropical for us these late-winter days!), there was a bit of this yesterday:
That’s actual liquid water, flowing out of Spring Creek Basin and under a bridge along which runs the Disappointment Valley road along the southwestern/southern boundary of the basin. I call it the county-line drainage. You can see a bit of snow on the bank of the arroyo. A lot of smaller tributary arroyos feed into this one, including another large one (also fed by numerous smaller ones) that drains a large area farther to the east. These arroyos, in turn, drain to Disappointment Creek; from this point, the bridge on which I was standing when I took this pic, the creek isn’t too far down this arroyo behind me to the south(ish).
Water shapes our world in many ways here. This: a sign of spring on the way!
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Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 