Arched

16 01 2019

Tenaz

There’s always something about a beautiful bay mustang.

There’s something even more magical about a beautiful bay mustang during a snowfall.

Tenaz was defending a young mare from a young stallion. Chivalry; it ain’t dead, folks. 🙂

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Karen and Shaun Mason are visitors to Spring Creek Basin who compiled a 2019 calendar of photos of the mustangs. They’ll donate $5 from every calendar purchase to the Colorado chapter of the National Mustang Association, which supports the mustangs of Spring Creek Basin and elsewhere in Southwest Colorado.

The images are gorgeous and “processed in photographic oil,” which gives a really lovely, painterly quality to the photos.

If you’re in need of a calendar that really is art, check out Karen’s and Shaun’s!





Little Red

14 01 2019

Tesora

She doesn’t have a riding hood … but little red Tesora doesn’t need one. 🙂





Spots and waves

13 01 2019

Chipeta

Chipeta looks almost as though she’s moving through ocean waves in the snowy expanse of Spring Creek Basin.





Marvelosity

12 01 2019

Something a little different today …

Snow in Spring Creek Basin

Snow in Spring Creek Basin

Snow in Spring Creek Basin

Warm temps are melting the snow. There’s still quite a bit, which means plenty of mud in uncovered areas … like roads I’ve previously driven on. 🙂

We got a little more unexpected snow, but we’re still having above-freezing temps. Moisture is seeping into the ground. We can always use more!





Hot to trot

11 01 2019

Aspen

Aspen is on a mission to guide his mares away from another band. He’s *always* on a mission to make his mares go somewhere else. (He’s a bit of a micromanager.)





Frosty and furry

10 01 2019

Seneca

Seneca teaches us that we should never miss the opportunity to play in the snow!





White-n-bold girls

9 01 2019

Reya and Chipeta

Pretty pintos Reya and Chipeta pose atop a snowy hill juuuuuust long enough for the shutter to snap before their stallion moved them on. These girls are always on the move. … Well, almost always. 🙂





Our Pati

8 01 2019

Seneca; Temple Butte and McKenna Peak

Check out this wonderful article in the Telluride Daily Planet by writer Katie Klingsporn:

https://www.telluridenews.com/news/article_d8e1bd26-112e-11e9-b31f-0f3d56d820bc.html

In the photo above, Temple Butte is the prominent promontory behind snow-covered McKenna Peak (shaped like a pyramid).

Seneca is the lovely mustang, walking through her lovely, winter-white-coated world.

Thanks so much to all who contributed to the success of our application to name Temple Butte in honor of Pati (and David) Temple. It’s the least we could do to honor a woman who did so much for the wild she knew and loved.





Lotta what we need

7 01 2019

Comanche's band

Doesn’t it look just like it must have when the region was covered by a giant ocean? I mean, look at all that WATER.

So it’s frozen. It’s still a whole lotta moisture. 🙂





Strider

6 01 2019

Killian

Like perhaps many of the world’s female population, I can admit to a minor crush on Strider, aka Aragorn, aka Viggo Mortensen. … But our boy Killian sure knows how to rock the screen, too. 🙂