This giant claret cup cactus (or cacti in a bundle?!) was amazing, and I tried to get various horses in the same frame with it without success. Alegre wasn’t suuuuuper cooperative in that way, but I managed to get her as she grazed her way from behind a four-wing saltbush – without shaving off part of her face. 🙂
These elegant ladies are in neighboring bands that travel together. They are among the holders of the wisdom of the herd.
Winona looks beautiful in just a hint of light with storm clouds behind her. (Spoiler alert: Those clouds dropped no rain on us.)
You know you’re doing OK on grasses when it’s hard to get teeny little horse-following birds in focus because there’s always vegetation in the way. 🙂 I’m not sure what this LBJ (little brown job) is, exactly, but several more of this color/type and several others that were very dark (might have been females and males of the same species?) were following the horses as they grazed. Based on the focus with which the birds kept up with the moseying/grazing horses, I’m sure there must have been a lot of good bits of yummies for both horses and birds! (The little orange flowers are globemallow.)
Chipeta may make me work for attentive pix of her-very-lovely-self, but it’s so worth it. 🙂
Skywalker also is one who doesn’t like to expend any more energy than necessary. 🙂 He saves his energy for when it’s really necessary, like showing interest in a pretty young filly. He’s a champion napper!
In the late light of day, the ridge below Filly Peak was shadowed, but the (poor dead) pinon or juniper tree was lit like a flame. It made the perfect complement for highlighted Rowan as she looked back to check in with her band mates.
It’s also perhaps a fitting image as we think about Memorial Day and the reasons we remember the sacrifice of American men and women who died while wearing the uniforms of various branches of the United States military. In honoring their service and ultimate sacrifice, we are hopefully unified as over not much else these days. And we can honor their commitment to their country, their families and the peace most of us enjoy every day.
Buckeye is … just about perfect. 🙂 He has everything a stallion should have: family, freedom, good grass and (decent) water. He’s also perfectly content.
Winona has been feasting on spring greens – which are growing despite our terrible lack of rain – and she’s looking a bit more plump than she did in late winter. It helps that she doesn’t like to expend any more energy than necessary, which is the perfect attitude for napping on a warm, windy day!
Tenaz and Skywalker take a moment to pause their chat while a mare walks by. Tenaz is a good lieutenant stallion, and Skywalker perseveres.
