Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Tenaz and Skywalker make their way down a hill at sunset to one of Spring Creek Basin’s water catchments, now holding plenty of water after the rains a week ago.

Do you ever get that feeling like you’re being watched?

In the best possible way, of course! 🙂

I was sitting way up high on a hill in the northwestern part of the basin, after a huffin’-and-puffin’ kind of climb, and I was looking out at the view when I happened to look straight to my right to see a pretty little face looking at me from under the cover (or so she thought) of trees. Ha!

Pretty Rowan in Buckeye’s band is a curious girl!

We are having some absolutely gorgeous weather. It’s mostly dry again, though I keep finding little pools in arroyos and canyons and other little places of still-damp ground. The mustangs are growing their winter coats and starting to look fuzzy. My favorite time of year.

Cassidy Rain remains morally opposed to posing for marvelous mustang portraits … but now and then, I “catch” her looking gorgeous (as she always does, willingly or not)!

Lovely, wise Terra, napping on a sunny – and windy! – fall day in Spring Creek Basin.

Mariah was not impressed about being disturbed from her nap in the shade. I didn’t bother them long as I investigated the sound of water trickling and discovered it to be rain-remnant water trickling over rock down an arroyo just behind her band. Amazing!

By tomorrow morning (?), she might want more sunshine than shade as temps are predicted to drop to freezing for the first time this season!

Tenaz models a bit of autumn color among the rabbitbrush and willows in a shallow drainage while keeping an eye on the band. A bit different perspective, but it makes him seem a bit … mysterious? 🙂