Spring Creek Basin mustangs

The day the snow came

23 02 2022

I know, right!?!!?!?

Tenaz seems to be reflecting surprise at the change in conditions in Spring Creek Basin. 🙂 We seem to have gotten anywhere between 6.5 inches and 8.5 inches, though it was wonderfully wet snow and melting even as it was falling throughout the day (the whole day!).

More is on tap for today. We are overjoyed!

Thank you all for dancing and praying and wishing and hoping and sending your good snow thoughts!! And if you’re in a place that needs moisture (looking at you, California), snow wishes for you, too!

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Wild and wild in wild

22 02 2022

You can hike with them. You can mosey while they graze along. You can nap while they nap.

They – wild horses – are always as they are. No artifice, no guile, no pretense.

Your – my – presence is just something that ebbs and flows throughout their daily lives … most of which involves not a single human being at all.

But without my – your? our? – presence, scenes like that above, which happen most days, would go … what? Unnoticed? Unwitnessed? Unappreciated? By humans, surely.

We have so much to learn from them – from wild horses … from wild … everything.

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Not the best white stuff

21 02 2022

Most unfortunately, the white stuff on the ground below Maia is not snow. It’s salt that comes up through the soil here.

But hey, eyes up here! Maia is most deserving of admiring glances, not the dry ground. 🙂 And her “white stuff” is pretty much the best stuff.

We have rain/snow in our forecast starting today and going through Wednesday. All good wishes for us to ACTUALLY get moisture are welcome!

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That natural look

20 02 2022

Now, ladies, don’t be jealous. Hollywood does have the best hairdresser in the business; she goes by “Mother Nature.” 😉

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To best advantage

19 02 2022

Corazon shows off his big namesake heart. 🙂

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So welcome

18 02 2022

That’s not a trick of the light, and unless you’re completely distracted by the lovely Gaia, you see the snow on McKenna Peak and the snow on the ground at her hooves.

That’s right, folks: For the first time in more than a very long month and a half, we got snow. Moisture, in any form, is extremely much super very totally needed this winter, and although it wasn’t a whole heckuva lot, it was *something* … and we need a whole lotta wet somethings. News broke this week that “the megadrought gripping the American West is so severe that it’s become the driest two decades in the region in at least 1,200 years – and drought conditions will likely persist for years.”

Yikes. (And a bunch of other swear words.)

The snow dampened the excruciatingly long dust trails raised by vehicles on local roads, but by mid-afternoon, those local roads were dry or nearly so. In potentially other good news, next week brings some more chances for snow. Please keep your fingers crossed for us, and dance a dance or two. 🙂

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Lean on me

17 02 2022

Everybody needs a shoulder to lean on. 🙂

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Bright white

16 02 2022

Spa days are nice, but Chipeta knows the value of keeping her whites bright!

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That gold, good gold

15 02 2022

The tawny color of the landscape is getting increasingly bleak, but although Kestrel’s tawny coat is similar, it’s … well, better. 🙂

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A couple of dear hearts

14 02 2022

Sundance and one of his new mares drink at a pond with the day’s last light glowing on them. Look closely, and you can see his mane draped over her neck as she’s drinking from the same hole in the ice at the edge of the pond. 🙂