Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Sundance and his daughter graze and watch a nearby band under the soft light of clouds (finally!) at sunset.

Maia at her ease. Just nappin’ on a warm autumn (Indian summer, anyone?) evening.

Part of a lieutenant stallion’s duties are to watch for danger, complementary to the band stallion’s duties of the same. Corazon is the band stallion, Maiku the lieutenant, and they’ve together so long that their mutual reliance is obvious.

Handsome little Maiku was watching some horses that had crossed an arroyo and were grazing their way up the hill. He and his band had just grazed their way into the light from the shade cast by the butte across the drainage. Perfectly lit. 🙂

After being roused from his nap spot by the main band rousing from THEIR nap spot, Sancho looks back to check their progress.

Kestrel, in addition to making sure I am where I am and not anywhere else (!), is showing off her velveting (or is that velveteen? :)) coat. The days are still semi-unpleasantly warm with few clouds to block the shine of the sun or its heat, though the getting-longer-all-the-time nights cool off excellently. All of that means the mustangs are growing their fluffy coats for the coming season (which seems far away when daytime temps are near 90 … in September!).

Days are getting shorter, coats are getting longer, and before long, these glorious days of autumn will be the memory of another year past. Enjoy the moments.

That one, long, gently curving tendril of mane. … Such a little thing. Such a gorgeous thing on Miss Terra, beautiful mustang girl.

Buckeye’s: the face of a content stallion whose world is, just, perfect. 🙂