“Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes” … and in my mane and forelock …
Maiku didn’t seem to mind the snow falling in dazzling great flakes … but none of the ponies were very happy with the biting graupel the wind sent peppering us this second day of snow!
I know, right!?!!?!?
Tenaz seems to be reflecting surprise at the change in conditions in Spring Creek Basin. 🙂 We seem to have gotten anywhere between 6.5 inches and 8.5 inches, though it was wonderfully wet snow and melting even as it was falling throughout the day (the whole day!).
More is on tap for today. We are overjoyed!
Thank you all for dancing and praying and wishing and hoping and sending your good snow thoughts!! And if you’re in a place that needs moisture (looking at you, California), snow wishes for you, too!
You can hike with them. You can mosey while they graze along. You can nap while they nap.
They – wild horses – are always as they are. No artifice, no guile, no pretense.
Your – my – presence is just something that ebbs and flows throughout their daily lives … most of which involves not a single human being at all.
But without my – your? our? – presence, scenes like that above, which happen most days, would go … what? Unnoticed? Unwitnessed? Unappreciated? By humans, surely.
We have so much to learn from them – from wild horses … from wild … everything.
Most unfortunately, the white stuff on the ground below Maia is not snow. It’s salt that comes up through the soil here.
But hey, eyes up here! Maia is most deserving of admiring glances, not the dry ground. 🙂 And her “white stuff” is pretty much the best stuff.
We have rain/snow in our forecast starting today and going through Wednesday. All good wishes for us to ACTUALLY get moisture are welcome!
Now, ladies, don’t be jealous. Hollywood does have the best hairdresser in the business; she goes by “Mother Nature.” 😉
Corazon shows off his big namesake heart. 🙂
That’s not a trick of the light, and unless you’re completely distracted by the lovely Gaia, you see the snow on McKenna Peak and the snow on the ground at her hooves.
That’s right, folks: For the first time in more than a very long month and a half, we got snow. Moisture, in any form, is extremely much super very totally needed this winter, and although it wasn’t a whole heckuva lot, it was *something* … and we need a whole lotta wet somethings. News broke this week that “the megadrought gripping the American West is so severe that it’s become the driest two decades in the region in at least 1,200 years – and drought conditions will likely persist for years.”
Yikes. (And a bunch of other swear words.)
The snow dampened the excruciatingly long dust trails raised by vehicles on local roads, but by mid-afternoon, those local roads were dry or nearly so. In potentially other good news, next week brings some more chances for snow. Please keep your fingers crossed for us, and dance a dance or two. 🙂
Everybody needs a shoulder to lean on. 🙂
Spa days are nice, but Chipeta knows the value of keeping her whites bright!
The tawny color of the landscape is getting increasingly bleak, but although Kestrel’s tawny coat is similar, it’s … well, better. 🙂
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 