Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

What are those silly bachelors up to THIS time?!

Comanche is pretty calm, but the boys have come knocking, and they bear watching.

Maiku’s still looking … still happy with his little family and his place in it (lieutenant).

We wish our skies were that shade of blue these days. … But they’re now either clear of clouds, or the clouds are bright white, not rain-promise blue.

Do you have a great view while you eat supper? Killian’s band does. 🙂

Mister Hayden’s band was behind him. Another stallion’s band was ahead of him. Another stallion who already has a lieutenant stallion and didn’t need any “help” from Hayden to ward off the young bachelor also on the prowl through the trees.

Temple seems to ask if wind equals rain.

Well, usually?

We didn’t get rain during the above photography time; but it did come later, after a weirdly eerie stillness, in the dark.

I’m not sure what kind of critter made the pitter-pat tracks down her shoulder, but isn’t it cool!? 🙂 (It’s really just still-dark hair that hasn’t greyed out at the same rate as the rest of her coat.) And isn’t SHE gorgeous!

Chipeta is another model-beautiful girl who really doesn’t have time for the glamour shots, thank you very much. 🙂

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Shout out to my friend Deb, who is retiring after 31 years at the newspaper in Texas where we met. She was my first journalism mentor (and one of my best), and we’ve kept in touch all this time (since I moved from there to Colorado in 2001). She has outlasted too many people to count – editors, reporters, managers – and is as feisty as ever. We’ve chortled about a great many things during our friendship, and almost every time I make it home to Texas to visit my folks, we have lunch at the Olive Garden in town, right off the highway, which now is an interstate.

I sure appreciate that you’ve kept me apprised of baseball and politics goings-on all these years, and I hope for at least 20 years more of the same!

Congrats, Deb! 🙂

Storm, born after a big storm swept over the basin, has a pretty calm personality – unless anything threatens his family.

If he has any pull with Ma Nature, maybe he can keep the rain coming. 🙂

Killian might have been looking at a couple of his mares. … Or he might have been listening to thunder.

Not long after this pic was taken, we did get a little wave of sprinkles. But the bigger wave came around 8:30 p.m. And was still going as of 10 p.m. 🙂

The roof over Disappointment Valley is leaking, and we couldn’t be happier – or more relieved!