Oh, I do love a rich bay mustang against the glorious white of pristine snow! Madison the beautiful.
(This post refers back to fresh-snow scenery from the last storm. I have this one and another that I’d like to share before the next snowstorm hits Disappointment Valley!)
Shadow approaches the running stream that is Spring Creek for a drink.
With daytime temperatures at or slightly above 50 degrees, there’s liquid water for the horses to drink from shady-spot snow still melting.
Love her natural (probably greasewood) mane adornments!
(Although this is down in the Spring Creek arroyo, you can see the lack of snow, which is the current land condition. There are still infrequent patches of snow in the north-facing and/or shady areas, but mostly, the basin is free of snow, though still damp to muddy in most places. We have snow in the forecast for Friday.)
While standing on the lower side of a little hillock, waiting for horses to appear from the other side, with McKenna Peak and Temple Butte in the background, Skywalker sauntered by at about eye level.
Hi, big guy!
Love his snowy muzzle. 🙂
Who *doesn’t* feel frisky with a couple of inches of fresh snow on the ground and warm sunshine on your fuzzy coat!? Odin is full of spunk. 🙂
(The snow is mostly melted into the needy soil again, but you won’t blame me for sharing more pix from the day we had a snowclad basin during the next few days.)
Not only did we get the gift of snow Friday, I saw Hollywood on Saturday. 🙂
He’s thin (much more thin than I’d like to see him at this time of year (or any time of year)), but he seems to be relatively OK. He drank at the edge of a frozen pond, then walked away on a trail to the spot where I found him napping in the (relatively) warm sunlight. He didn’t acknowledge my presence much at all (which was OK as it meant he wasn’t bothered), and I was able to walk around and get a good look at him. I couldn’t tell about his eye (napping, he had both of them mostly closed), but other than being thin, he doesn’t seem to have any particular injuries.
He did pick a very scenic location to stop for a midday nap. 🙂
Bonus: Hollywood’s scenery looking across Spring Creek Basin and Disappointment Valley to Utah’s La Sal Mountains, looking pristine under a cover of fresh snow.
If anybody looks as though he’s put on his very finest winter coat for the season, it’s Maiku!
He wasn’t too interested in posing in his snowy world, being much more interested in finding edible bits, but he’s still awfully handsome.
We had a very nice little snowstorm Friday, and the area got anywhere from an inch to at least 4 inches. It didn’t melt right away like the last (first) snowfall. It’s sooooooo beautiful out there!
Sundance, looking handsome as ever during a recent golden, glorious evening.
I mean, really, what else is there to say!?
Kestrel sure knew just how to use that handy branch stob to scratch her itches!
Golden girls in golden light above Spring Creek canyon.
I keep telling ya’ll there’s magic out there. 🙂
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 