We don’t have “standing stones” as evidence of prehistoric cultures, and we don’t have any indigenous rock art in Spring Creek Basin (that I know of), but these boulders stand at the base of a big rocky hill, and now and then, the mustangs take advantage to use them for both napping shade as well as scratching “posts”!
Temple took advantage of one of them post-nap as the band was starting to mosey out to graze in the evening light. She had a bit of an audience. 🙂
Really leaning into it!
When he finally looked up from his grazing above the south rim of Spring Creek canyon (north rim shown in the background), I was there. 🙂
Enjoy the moments. The ones that matter.
Aiyanna.
Love.
🙂
Bay beauties Tenaz and Madison engage in a bit of flirting for a brief moment.
Their family dynamic is … complicated. But then, what family’s isn’t? 🙂 The wonderful thing is that the overall dynamic between the families is one of respect and mostly peaceful.
Mostly. 🙂
That’s the sun, sinking through a mixture of smoke and dust. The rim of earth is Spring Creek Basin’s western rimrock boundary.
The sky? Well, that was just Mother Nature showing off. 🙂
Mustangs were below … but I couldn’t fit them in the image.
Who DOESN’T like to take in that view every now and then?!
Rowan keeps an eye out for anything that’s *not right* while the band grazes among the rocks in the high northwestern part of Spring Creek Basin. This was a different area than where the horses normally are, and I liked the different look of it. There was a lot of chattering from, I think, pinyon jays, and I think that’s what caught her attention. … Either that, or another band over a bit of a ridge.
This was (fortunately) several days ago now.
That was yucky.
I thought it was wildfire smoke from (at least) the Deer Creek (western Colorado and eastern Utah; northwest of Disappointment Valley at the base of Utah’s La Sal Mountains and above Colorado’s Paradox Valley) and Turner Gulch (northeast of Gateway, Colorado) fires because the wind was out of the north/northwest/west, but I read that it was from the Arizona fires (Dragon Bravo and White Sage). Look at a fire map of the western United States, and you’ll see that we’re likely getting smoke from … any/everywhere. 😦
Skywalker on the flyby to give me a bit of a checkout as he moseyed with the band.
Several days now after the above images (I really couldn’t bear to post them at the time), our sky has returned to glorious Colorado-turquoise. The unfortunate part there is that we’d like to have some clouds. 🙂 For shade relief, let alone rain. … Never quite happy, are we? 🙂 (Please, please, please rain!!!!)
Corazon, old as he is and as long as he’s known me (most of his life), still likes to act surprised to see me.
As much as I *love* these mustangs and find them the most beautiful of all creatures upon the planet, I do wonder now and then (often) what they think of us crazy two-leggeds. … I don’t think there’s much appreciation there (though I’m glad there’s a lot of tolerance). 🙂
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 