Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

The light on these grey girls is so warm, even as the shadows on the snow make it look so blue and cold. Alegre and Houdini are rarely far from each other.

Ah, another peaceful sunny day in Spring Creek Basin, looking toward Shane and Utah. As it happened, it was the first day of a new year, and it was spent with many more mustangs. 🙂 It was an amazing blessing of a day!

Kwana and Duke in the last light of the first day of the year. How handsome are those faces!

Does it get any more gorgeous on the very first day of the very New Year?!

Sundance rocked the sundog that appeared over Spring Creek Basin late in the afternoon of January the very 1st, 20SIXTEEN! (Can you believe it?!)

From Wikipedia: “Sun dogs are a member of a large family of halos, created by light interacting with ice crystals in the atmosphere. Sun dogs typically appear as two subtly colored patches of light to the left and right of the sun, approximately 22° distant and at the same elevation above the horizon as the sun. They can be seen anywhere in the world during any season, but they are not always obvious or bright. Sun dogs are best seen and are most conspicuous when the sun is close to the horizon.”

I’d add that they’re also best seen while highlighting fabulous mustangs. 🙂

Oh em wonderful-gee. 🙂 What a beautiful day, the first of the rest of the year!

Looking forward. 🙂

As Prairie Girl said in her comments yesterday, never give up fighting for those you love. We pray for peace, and we will be active in making it happen for our beloved horses.

For our mesteños, we are motivated by love and gratitude.

Looking back on 2015, we had many successes offset by many seeming failures for wild horses and burros in America. But if those failures gave us lessons with which to succeed in 2016 and beyond, we owe it to our mustangs and burros to pony up and succeed.

It’s possible. Our Spring Creek Basin mustangs are beautiful, living proof that perseverance and commitment *can* bring about our desired goals.

So, looking back on 2015, we focus on those successes with gratitude and with commitment to carry forward lessons learned.

From the horses:

• Honor, protect, cherish family.
• Live in the moment.
• Bite once, make your point, graze peacefully.
• Play!
• Be curious. Explore.
• Be wary of danger, but don’t panic.

What lessons have you learned from YOUR horses? Please share! 🙂 And enjoy the last moments of 2015!

Coyotes were singing back and forth as the snow rolled in again. While the mustangs seem to ignore the canines most of the time, this particular time, they seemed very aware of the caroling and who was doing it.

Aspen shows off the dramatic background of Spring Creek canyon. Any background is beautiful with a mustang in the foreground! 🙂

Christmas Day’s weather window didn’t last long for a visit with the merry mustangs. Another blizzard rolled in and pelted us with snow.

You’re happy trudging through 6 inches of snow while getting slammed with snow when you know all that moisture is feeding the roots of all that hardy vegetation upon which your mustangs depend. And I’m especially happy when I’ve just had a wonderful Christmas greeting with marvelous mustangs!

Dreams do come true! We got snow and mustangs for Christmas. 🙂

Blessed.