Maybe we’re going to get some rain soon. We can hope.
In the meanwhile, the horses are doing fine, and there’s a relative wealth of “feed” in the basin for them. Water is in lesser quantity, but there are seeps in multiple arroyos, and water trickles through rock layers to the surface in a couple of other arroyos/canyons. They know their home and where to find water, and the humans are watching closely.
Whew, working in the heat makes us sleepy. Time for a nap. 🙂
Our Daniel Chavez and his wife, Destiny, welcomed a baby girl to their family on Sunday! Her name is Amelia, and she weighed a very healthy 7 pounds, 10 ounces. 🙂
We wish you a beautiful life, baby Amelia, full of wild things and wild places, and forever watched over by the spirit of the mustangs!
Congratulations, Daniel and Destiny, on your baby girl! Your lives will never be the same. 🙂
Despite the heat and the dry and the worry, the beauty isn’t too hard to find in our desert world of mustangs.
Some of it is good brown – a la Tenaz, handsome, shiny bay boy! – and some of it is showing its *dry*.
It’s hot, folks. Hot and dry and … well, dry and hot.
Still, there’s beauty to be found, and the mustangs are adaptable and resilient.
This was Storm’s reaction to the attention-getting pronghorn buck in yesterday’s post. He didn’t expend too much energy, watching it with his family, all napping in the shade of some pinon trees.
The heat makes ya just wanna take a nap.
Killian also took the very briefest of moments to look up with a rainbow far southeast of Spring Creek Basin, just peeking out of a corner of cloud as rain fell farther north.
How’s that for some “fireworks” on our Independence Day!?
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.
