Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

No matter how cold the air, the LIGHT … the light is divine on the dark mustang.

The longest night of the year is past, and now days will get longer and longer – though maybe not warmer and warmer for at least another little while yet. 🙂

Sundance carries the shortest day in grand fashion – as always!

Tenaz, guilty. 🙂

If you’re tired of seeing mustangs in the snow … too bad!

Because …

We rarely get snow …

We still have snow!!!!!!!!!!!

We might get more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Apparently, folks in the eastern part of the U.S. are getting blasted by a nor’easter snowstorm right now, and those folks probably wish the western part of the U.S. – say, specifically, the region at the southwestern end of the Rockies – would get blasted with snow. … Really, we wouldn’t mind. 🙂

In serious terms, stay safe, stay warm!

It’s kind of amazing how not-cold it feels under the rays of the sun, even with snow on the ground and frosty air. So if Piedra seems a little sleepy, well, it was really nice napping weather.

On high ground, Skywalker shows off the snowy western part of Spring Creek Basin and beyond to the ridges that form the southwestern edge of Disappointment Valley.

Moseying through the early morning sunlight, mustangs walk through a couple of inches of fresh snow. I wish I could describe the sparkle of a million colors as that shine reflected all those perfect flakes!

Before sunrise, the temperature was a cool 2 degrees. It topped out around 27? When the sun dropped beyond the the far ridges, the temp dropped fast, to 18. That didn’t take long!

The ponies are fuzzy, and if they wonder what happened to their brown world, replaced with all this lovely – cold! – white, still they mosey on.