Skywalker had been browsing around, then stopped to nap, and he was pretty determinedly paying zero attention to me.
And then he seemed to notice a pretty mare just ahead, and he perked up a bit. 🙂
He still paid me no nevermind, and that was perfectly OK.
Possibly other photographers would cull this image because of the dead – distracting? – sunflower stalk marring the lovely lines of Chipeta’s face. Maybe I’m just ornery, but I like it. Maybe it’s a reminder of summer, and given the awfulness of this winter (drydrydry), I’m in no hurry to get back to summer, but I still like it.
Is the rest of the image enough to draw your eye away from the bright, dead-center, dead-old sunflower stalk? Is Chipeta beautiful enough? Her coat fuzzy enough, the lift of her stepping leg strong enough, her nostril just-so-cocked enough, her pretty self aware enough … to focus your distraction on HER?
It’s enough for me. 🙂
Maiku, dear, did we interrupt your dinner? Please, carry on!
Lovely Maia, as pretty in winter as in the spring days of May, watches her band sisters as they browse through the trees near Round Top in Spring Creek Basin.
Chipeta found a patch of snow and was enjoying chewing it into liquid coolness. Fuzzy, fuzzy girl!
A few spots of white are better than NO spots of white. 🙂
*Spoiler* alert: The bummer is NOT Corazon. 🙂
The bummer, as you can see from the endless brown above (NOT Corazon, who, of course, is black and white), is the utter lack of snow yesterday, despite the teasing forecast that got our hopes up. I’m not sure what’s worse: snow in the forecast that never happens … or endless days of straight-up zero percent chance that it’ll happen.
Cassidy Rain and her band were around a little water source that was partially open, partially frozen. The white on the ground in the foreground is salt; it comes to the surface particularly when the ground has been damp.
We’re hoping for snow tomorrow, but the forecast isn’t looking so hot, err, wet.
Who doesn’t love that handsome Hollywood face?
After the disturbing news and images from the Capitol on Wednesday, a big hike in the basin finally took me to a visit with Hollywood’s band. As you can see from the background, there’s not a lot of white in our world these days, but we have a chance of snow on Saturday. Not a big chance, but we’re high on hope out here.
There are few words strong enough to condemn the violence yesterday upon the U.S. Capitol, and people wiser and more eloquent than I am already have spoken out against the terrible revolt.
Heartbreaking.
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 