To illustrate the chill still in the air a couple of days ago after our recent snowfall, two images of lovely Chipeta are required:
It’s still frustratingly hard to see in these images, but Chipeta was blowing out steam with every breath. In person, backlit, it was so much easier to see! Chilly, chilly. 🙂
Thanks (!) to colllllllddddd temperatures (note that clear turquoise sky), snow lingers on McKenna Peak and Temple Butte. Lower, Houdini and her bandmates have to slog through soggy soil where that wonderful snow is melting – melllllltttttinnngggggg! – into ground that very much needs it.
Houdini, our grand dame of Spring Creek Basin, has seen snow on the heights and has slogged through winter mud … how many seasons? Unknowable … infinite … many, many, many. We’re fortunate to share even a few with her.
From Sand Wash Basin to Spring Creek Basin … the common denominator is wild.
Dundee, Rowan and Aiyanna (still with their grey boy Buckeye). Fuzzy, round, lovely.
Three wildly beautiful girls in the most best place. 🙂
P.S. We’re getting rain!
Does this guy know how to strike a pose or what?
Just Skywalker. Doin’ what Skywalker does. 🙂
Terra = of the earth.
So true.
Our fair lady? 🙂
Dark ponies watch a scuffle between their stallion and another band down the ridge and across a seepy arroyo.
There’s not nearly enough snow on the far slopes of Utah’s La Sal Mountains. They rise above deserts in all directions, but they should be gowned in snow by now.
Late-day low-sun-and-clouds backlit silhouette upon a ridge.
One admiring one-other, as we humans so often admire them.
After a not-so-brief discussion of terms over a mare with a neighboring stallion, Kwana trots back to his own mares. Fortunately for the young stallion, though Kwana successfully separated him from his mare, apparently the better part of valor (?!) occurred to him (!?), and he returned to his mares without the acquisition of a new one. The young stallion returned to his girl and made a show of snaking her away up a far ridge and beyond, while Kwana did the same with his girls – in the opposite direction.
I’m all for windbraided tangles and witches’ knots and fairy curls, so how DOES Temple stay so perfectly coiffed!? Not a hair out of place. She’s amazing (and not just because of her show-ready mane!). 🙂
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 