Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Still wooly. Still snow out there in the high(er) places. Rowan and Dundee are ready for spring. 🙂

Snow-globe magic of light with Miz Winona. 🙂

Sunshine through snow at a distance results in those soft colors we love that complement the mustangs – sleepy Seneca in this case – so well. Cozy coats still make for comfortable napping in such weather.

Our weather is still a bit unsettled the rest of this week before we have some rain in the forecast in a few days. If we could get rain once or twice a week, it would go a long way toward making ours a green spring!

Springtime? Check.

Sunshine? Check.

Snow? Check.

Springtime in Colorado? Double check!

Spring is here. Here’s the proof in the budding greasewood. 🙂

I’m always happy when I see the greasewood budding again. It’s a good source of protein that the mustangs eat like ice cream. I equate it with warming weather, shedding coats and plumping ponies.

Lingering clouds crown Utah’s La Sal Mountains, ever-present sentinels of our northwestern horizon.

Kestrel makes that horizon view so much more … wild.

I can’t really explain what captures me about this pic of Terra … but maybe it captures you, too.

Flash makes his way down a muddy trail from ridgetop to arroyo bottom. A band was drinking at the seep (there’s almost always water there) while he was moseying. By the time he arrived, they had mostly left and were grazing above the arroyo and below the neighboring ridgetop.

He may be losing his spots to his greyness, but he’s still a pretty striking young stallion!

Cassidy Rain and most of her band were on a big open flat, and a few other members of the band and I were about halfway up a hill still. Every now and then, she would pause her grazing and check in with her band mates. While they’re all always aware of the locations of each other, Cassidy Rain seems to have an innate “mothering” instinct that has her keeping close track of her friends.

It will be great to start seeing the shedding of that velvet coat for her slick ‘n shiny summer sleekness!