Again. 🙂
Skywalker doesn’t like to expend too much energy. And who needs to on a warm(ish) spring day when the wind is NOT howling?
Caught ‘im nappin’
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This happened!
13 04 2022
We interrupt your regularly scheduled brown-landscape post with this view of our black-and-white girl in a very white landscape!
We had hoped for rain – and I admit, I wasn’t very certain of any moisture at all – and we got this!
At the time I was photographing Raven and her band, the wind was blowing the snow sideways, and she and her bandmates were taking shelter in a small copse of pinon and juniper trees, butts to the wind-driven flurries (can’t we get away from that wind? even while it’s snowing?!).
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Fine points
12 04 2022
A handsome blue-eyed mister never goes amiss, particularly not on a grey day.
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Grounded
11 04 2022
Can it get any windier? (Don’t answer that.)
At least we have beautiful mustangs to get us through.
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Mustangs at the Dolores Public Library
10 04 2022
The display of photos featuring Spring Creek Basin’s mustangs at the Dolores Public Library in Dolores, Colorado, looks fabulous! The big canvas-wrapped images are on loan from BLM’s Tres Rios Field Office (which is located just above the town of Dolores); they were part of last year’s special exhibit at Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act. I’m so pleased that the library will display them through the month of April!
Special thanks to Emily Mason, director of adult programming for the library, who secured the loan of the photos and did such a wonderful job with hanging them and with designing the fliers to announce their exhibit at the library; Tracy Murphy with Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum, who facilitated the packaging and delivery; and Connie Clementson, manager of Tres Rios Field Office, who agreed to this special partnership!
**Update**
The 11×14-inch prints on the right are the images in the silent auction to benefit the library.
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‘Hair’s’ the wind!
9 04 2022
Sticking with the theme of spring wind … it’s still windy out there! Spring is just barely springing, so wind is “hair” to stay!
It does make for some cute hair-dos. 🙂
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That ol’ wind
8 04 2022
Sometimes, the howling spring winds just take it outta ya … “it” being whatever you need it to be: motivation, gumption, oomph. We’re ready for some gentle, calm, “female” rain to sweeten that dry, dusty wind.
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Spotted with splashes
7 04 2022
Spirit may have gotten a little enthusiastic at the spa. 🙂
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Pretty pinto lady
6 04 2022
Just looking at Chipeta doesn’t give much clue to the howling wind yesterday. The dust in the background ought to.
It was a peaceful, beautiful evening, but it wasn’t exactly *calm*.
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April is event month!
5 04 2022
If you’re local to Dolores, Colorado, please put the above event on your calendar!
Throughout the month of April, the Dolores Public Library will show several of the big photo canvases from last year’s special exhibit at Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum.
I’ll be there from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, April 8, to talk about the mustangs of Spring Creek Basin, so come say hi and/or introduce yourself!
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It turns out that April is a big month for presentations about Spring Creek Basin’s mustangs:
Four Corners Back Country Horsemen will host author and advocate Kathryn Wilder and I from about 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 21, at their meeting at the Florida Grange Hall. Kat will read from her memoir “Desert Chrome,” and I’ll run a slideshow and talk about the mustangs.
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From 6 to 7 p.m. Friday, April 22, Spring Creek Basin herd manager Mike Jensen and I will offer a presentation about the mustangs. We’ll talk about our management strategies, including PZP, water projects, range monitoring and main points of our recently updated (2020) herd management area plan. This presentation is part of the Four Corners Lecture Series (find them on Facebook).
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Finally, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 30, at Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum, come and meet the mustangs! Our event last fall with Spring Creek Basin mustangs Whisper and Skipper was such a favorite with visitors, CANM folks invited us back to share these excellent boys with the public. Kathryn Wilder will do a reading from “Desert Chrome,” speaking along with a slideshow of my images of the mustangs, and locals Tif Rodriguez and Keith Bean will be with their boys to talk about their adoption experiences through BLM. Whisper and Skipper would love to see you. 🙂
Please join us!
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