Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

This image shows snow from the last big snowstorm. Oddly, though the rest of Southwest Colorado (well, all of western Colorado, apparently?) seems to be getting fairly hammered by snow, Disappointment Valley seems to be a bit sheltered from the storm – literally. It *has* snowed … but it seems to be coming from Utah and blowing on to Kansas! The wind has been strong and sharp, and it hasn’t allowed much snow to *fall* let alone settle.

We had a lot of melting of all that snow Corazon is standing in – with temps in the balmy-seeming 50s. Actual creeks (Spring and Disappointment) ran with melting snow-water and the melting made tiny (to not-so-tiny) creeks where arroyos or any other low channels existed.

The landscape IS white again, but maybe only an inch or so has actually settled out of the wind-blown flurries.

Jadi watches the horses around her – while well aware of me watching all of them – with the curve of the rimrocks above Spring Creek canyon arching across the background. Fluffy, fluffy!

We still have a few to several inches of snow on the ground. There’s some melting happening, but the temps aren’t rising as much as the forecasters are forecasting, so it’s slow and steady … which is fine and good.

The horses don’t seem to mind the snow too much. It’s not so much that they can’t get to the protruding vegetation. And when that sun shines full on us, it’s almost downright toasty! Nap time is peaceful time.