Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

“Free and easy … like the wind in your hair …

“Free and easy … that’s gonna get you there.”

Another nod to Dave Stamey for the words in today’s post.

That’s the face of a handsome boy  – Grey/Traveler – who has been photographed sooooo many times and is soooo over it. 🙂

Ah … but he still makes my heart flutter. He’s so good to even look up from his grazing!

She may not be the prettiest gal in the basin, but she’s awfully sweet. She was watching her stallion watch another stallion across an open expanse of sage and saltbush and lots and lots of amazing green grass (thank you, rain!).

Oh, these girls. Look at their plump healthiness.

Love.

After a mud bath earlier in the day, Chrome decided that a dust bath was in order to solidify his caked armor against the biting flies. And boy, are they biting. Moisture brings bugs … in addition to sprouts of new grass, springing up everywhere, for which we’re very, very grateful. 🙂

Happy birthday to my dad, who is a most awesome dad! He and my mom are totally responsible (to blame) for my utter addiction to horses. I don’t see them often enough, but at Thanksgiving, we’ll spend some time together and ride some horses together, and I’m looking forward to that holiday of gratitude.

In the meantime, have a beautiful, wild, wonderful birthday, Dad!

A friend who follows baseball says the boys of summer play about 987 games per season (that may be a slight exaggeration; I can never remember). But to the mustangs, the buggy days of summer may feel at least that long. But as we make the turn toward fall, the days are getting cooler – dropping into the lower 90s from the upper 90s and 100s – and the swarms of biting, buzzing bugs are lessening to mere clouds.

We did get rain, which has been an enormous and huge relief and help.

We should name some future foal Pizzazz – the mustangs sure have it! Skywalker has it in spades.

Bounce, one of Spring Creek Basin’s grand old elders, is showing his age. He’s a lieutenant stallion for a younger (much younger) stallion, so he’s in good company to enjoy these summer days.

Oh, if he could talk … the stories he’d surely tell …

Kestrelita and her beau, handsome Comanche – a “power couple” of Spring Creek Basin, together for many, many years.