Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

We’re ready for some of those storm-dark skies again! Chipeta may not look excited about the rain (this pic is from about a week ago), but I just *know* she was looking forward to the rain! As we are, again, now. 🙂

I think they’re starting to look a little rounder ’round the edges. 🙂

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Speaking of complementary partnerships, The (Cortez) Journal recently highlighted the partnership with the Montezuma County Sheriff’s Mounted Patrol Unit, BLM and mustangs! Kudos to everyone involved with this program!

Maiku moseys after his band with other bands in the distance.

As the seasons march on, the sun is setting earlier and earlier. That’s what it does, of course! It’s noticeable. Here, Maiku and the band were already in the shade of the hill while the rest of the basin still enjoyed the lingering evening light.

Soggy times may be a weird time to remember dusty times, but when the ground is wet (there’s been dew … DEW!), we can remember when the ground wasn’t so wet … when that dust just made for a dramatic background to a photo as Aiyanna, Rowan and Dundee crossed an arroyo on their way to evening water. 🙂

If ridges were the crests of waves and the blowing grasses the motion of the sea, Raven would be a seafaring equine goddess.

We’ve had more rain. Poetic visions aside, that’s more goodness for land and mustangs alike!

This shot came seconds after the pic in yesterday’s post, and just a frame ahead of her stopping near her stallion. 🙂

Terra. Sooooo beautiful!

South of Spring Creek Basin and Disappointment Valley is an area of the San Juan National Forest known as The Glade. Benchmark Lookout, an old fire tower that is staffed during fire season, has a commanding view from the top and can be seen in the far background of this photo of our lovely Chipeta. The aspen in western Colorado are a little less advanced than those in eastern Utah, but they’re catching up quickly!

Corazon is over a little hump of land, but it’s easy to imagine him face deep in waving galleta grass. In many places, the horses ARE face deep in healthy galleta and other native grasses!

Our horizons are still a bit smoky, but autumn most definitely is here, and coats are starting fuzz.