And so we are.
Admiring the view
25 09 2024Comments : 10 Comments »
Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Golden grey girl
24 09 2024
You cannot possibly wonder why I adore backlighting. 🙂 That’s Mariah, rimmed in light, as she follows her band and another to the arroyo that is Spring Creek to drink from the cool, pooled and trickling water left from the last flood.
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Hues of autumn
23 09 2024
It’s here – autumn – as the hues of the Earth and light start to soften and turn gold – even earlier and later than golden hours.
I love autumn and its beautiful light that embraces the mustangs during the last warm days of summer.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Mistress of gold ‘n light
22 09 2024
Sweet Chipeta, loved by light and all humans fortunate enough to gaze upon her.
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A single moment
21 09 2024
The moment when Temple noticed Corazon’s band in the distance.
This moment lasted about 2.7 seconds … and then she returned to her peaceful grazing.
I was waiting to get her, the background horizon, the stormy sky in a *moment* … and that’s all I needed.
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Perfect perspective
20 09 2024
While hanging out with another band several evenings ago, I saw Corazon’s band a fair distance away. They were, in fact, up the hill to the left as you’re looking at the above photo. It was a cool perspective, but the horses were just enough over a little hill that they weren’t super recognizable with their heads down, grazing.
I kept an eye on them while enjoying my closer band, and eventually, they came into better view – which you see above. And eventually after THAT, they ended up very close to me and the band I was with. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Lovely swish
19 09 2024
A whole photo essay could be dedicated to the artistry of the mustang tail swish. This one, catching that luscious light, would come in near the top of the gallery.
(Photo-nerdy background info: I regularly delete pix that show a horse with a “normal” or straight-hanging tail as opposed to pix that show a lovely swish. I regularly let my camera indulge in its fast burst rate to take multiple images of a moment in order to hopefully get that *pretty* swish (let alone other loveliness).)
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Treasure
18 09 2024
All magic, all (OK, most of) the time.
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Magic bow
17 09 2024
From above Disappointment Road looking up-valley – Spring Creek Basin from about mid-ground at left to background. The magic treasure under the rainbow.
We got sprinkles but nothing spectacular in the rain department … unless, of course, you count the rainbow glowing ahead of the rain. 🙂
**** Update: Around 5 a.m., we got a *spectacular* thunder-and-lightning storm that brought the rain in toad-gagging torrents. Every arroyo and creek in the valley is surely rolling and roiling. Catchments hopefully have gotten much-needed infusions by the gallon.
Wowza!!!!
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Categories : Brumley Point, Disappointment Valley, McKenna Peak, Rain, Rainbow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte
Moon over Disappointment
16 09 2024
From Chrome’s Point in Spring Creek Basin, I watched the moon rise last night.
There’s a lot going on with our lunar neighbor this month, according to NASA. According to that linked article’s headline, “the next full moon (Tuesday) is a partial lunar eclipse; a supermoon, the corn moon, and the harvest moon.” That’s a hard-working moon!
It’s been rising over our horizons for generations untold. Still so amazing and mysterious and beautiful.
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, McKenna Peak, Moon, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte
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