Ms. Chipeta looked up at just the right time to pose under a low rainbow over Spring Creek Basin a couple of nights ago. We *did* get rain before that rainbow … maybe an hour earlier, gentle sprinkles. Relief, in so many ways.
Spots as gold
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Beloved horizon
2 07 2021
Just about everything is shown in this one pic – just about everything I love: Mustang (and there are more in the yonder) and that horizon that always lets me know I’m home after any amount of time away.
As always, I wonder what the horse sees/thinks as he looks out on that view, those places he knows intimately as a true, wild resident of that vast, wild land.
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Categories : Brumley Point, Disappointment Valley, McKenna Peak, McKenna Peak Wilderness Study Area, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Desert drinker of the water
1 07 2021
Skywalker drinks from a tinaja in a rocky drainage in Spring Creek Basin. The water must have collected from the last rainfall, last week, and this clever boy has found it.
“Tinaja is a term originating in Spain (Spanish for clay jar) and used in the American Southwest for surface pockets (depressions) formed in bedrock that occur below waterfalls, are carved out by spring flow or seepage, or are caused by sand and gravel scouring in intermittent streams (arroyos). Tinajas are an important source of surface water storage in arid environments.
“These relatively rare landforms are important ecologically, because they support unique plant communities and provide important services to terrestrial wildlife.” ~ from Wikipedia
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Water
Glow boy
29 06 2021
Even walking away, that soft light makes every mustang look handsome.
I adore that light! … And those mustangs. 🙂
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Some of those little things
28 06 2021
Storm grazes on an evening just gone shaded with clouds while rain falls over Utah to the northwest of Spring Creek Basin. Another night of peace and loveliness.
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Natural habitat
27 06 2021
Shadow prefers to be shadowy and obscure. She’d make great spy mustang! … Well, except that we can totally see her. 🙂
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Where there’s mud, there’s water
26 06 2021
Long live seeps deep enough to coat a mustang.
For bonus points, guess this pony’s true color!? 🙂
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Flirt
25 06 2021
Such a cheeky gal, Miss Piedra!
I suspect an inside joke … and that she’s laughing WITH me, not AT me. … But with mustangs, anything is possible! 🙂
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Peaceful
24 06 2021
Kestrel at rest.
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Spunky
23 06 2021
Kestrel on the fly.
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