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. 🙂





Our blues are the best blues

5 01 2019

Shadow; McKenna Peak and Temple Butte

Shadow grazes through the snow in the light.





The apple of our eye

4 01 2019

Tenaz

Handsome Tenaz – lookin’ good in all weather!





We have the blues

3 01 2019

Maia, Alegre and Houdini

In the very best way!

The (falling) snow has moved out, and now we have those fabulously famous Colorado bluebird skies, which make the snow even MORE gloriously, stunningly white. We’ve now had more snow in this storm than we got all last “winter” – aka the winter that wasn’t. Life is good. 🙂





Warmth

2 01 2019

Hollywood and Shane

Hollywood and Shane wait out the snow under some pinon and juniper trees. They couldn’t have known, but it would continue that evening and night and all the next day.

Lower Disappointment Valley now has at least 10 inches of snow covering the drought-parched ground!





Snow babies

1 01 2019

Madison and Temple

Madison and Temple don’t let a little snow phase them. They’re designed by Mother Nature to take everything Old Man Winter can throw at them! And we hope the old man sticks around this winter ‘cuz we sure need the moisture!

As of around 5 p.m. last night, we had about 5 inches of snow, and it was STILL coming down. 🙂

Happy New Year!

May 2019 bring moisture and all things good to our wild ones.





Golden couple

31 12 2018

Gaia and Storm

Hope everyone had a marvelous Christmas holiday! After a joyous trip to visit my family in Texas, I returned to Colorado – to snow! It’s a sight for sore eyes to see the countryside under varying depths of white stuff – moisture in frozen form. Hopefully winter will grace our dry, dry country. It looks good on the land. 🙂

Happy New Year’s Eve!





Pretty as a picture

30 12 2018

Juniper; Brumley Point

Beautiful grey girl Juniper watches another band in the distance.

That’s Brumley Point in the distance behind her. It forms part of Spring Creek Basin’s southeastern boundary.