Did someone say cooler temps and rain?
Gaia and her bandmates are tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiired of the heat and dry. (Sure, OK, that’s me dropping my human thinking and emotions onto them, but c’mon, we are ALL tired of the heat and the dry!)
Starting today, our forecast looks pretty good in the temperature and rain departments. Crossing fingers and hooves.
Chipeta shows off her fashionable flair for spreading the love. And I’m pretty sure she’s universally loved.
The mustang equivalent of drawing a line in the sand (or the shadscale, as it happens).
I wouldn’t mess with Maiku; would you?!
My beautiful Cassidy Rain, you can (try to) hide, but you can’t hide behind a spindly juniper tree, dear girl! 🙂
Pretty, beautiful Temple is a chunky, well-fed girl this summer. 🙂
All the heat rising into our local atmosphere is finally starting to rouse some rain clouds over the region – very scattered and random.
Now we just need those clouds to drop some rain.
Above, Maiku might have been enjoying the temperature drop when the clouds built up and the wind picked up. After a high of about 99 degrees, I sure was!
Tenaz in the orange light of a smoky sunset.
Another pic – of Skywalker this time – that deserved to be seen, though our skies very thankfully are no longer as smoky.
He was waiting around the edges for his turn at the water trough when he struck this handsome pose with Spring Creek canyon’s rimrocks in the background.
The smoke did make for some interesting light, but I think I’m not alone in preferring our clear blue skies.
Our skies have returned to Colorado-blue (is that a color on the paint-chip charts? it should be) from the smoky conditions. That’s good for us … and I hope it’s good for firefighters and community members who are battling fires in their own home ranges.
This pic of Winona was too pastel-pretty to pass up sharing.
Mariah – sure-footed mustang that she is – navigates boulders at the base of Filly Peak in Spring Creek Basin.
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 