Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

What a difference a day makes! Or, rather, a night. 🙂

The south wind blew snow in waves across Disappointment Valley and Spring Creek Basin on Christmas Day, but not a flake of it stuck to the warm, dry ground.

Yesterday’s photo of Temple was taken during one of those waves of snow, right before sunset. The sun already was coming back into view from beyond the clouds and snow, and you can see the brown of the basin behind the jewels of snowflakes swirling around Temple.

Then, late after the sky cleared for the stars, we had snow in the night, and we woke up to a white, white world!

Hayden.

He makes his own light.

Read more about the northern hemisphere’s winter solstice.

The sound of the helicopter had reached us, and Comanche and Kestrel were searching for the source of the noise. You can see it as the weird white dot in the sky immediately to the right of McKenna Peak. It flew over the eastern side of the basin and over the northern ridge and Horse Park.

It didn’t bother them too much, but they watched until the sound faded.