Tenaz’s “smile” is a little wonky from chats with other stallions, but it’s part of his character and never-give-up attitude. We can all learn something from that. 🙂
Swish ‘n a smile
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Sliver of face and light
29 06 2025
A little bit of peek-a-boo in this sliver of a shot of Temple and a bandmate browsing on greasewood. Just a quiet peek-a-boo moment into a sliver of their common lives.
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Shining through
28 06 2025
Handsome Sundance was grazing near a water source, and I was happy to see him. He’s showing his age these days (probably at least 20), but he seems to be doing well.
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The runaround
27 06 2025
Another version of “you shall not pass,” this featuring Tenaz, who was (and is) keeping Skywalker away from his young mares and the rest of the band. Skywalker was away from the band for a while, but he has returned as of earlier this year. He keeps everybody on their toes (hooves).
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Not on my watch
24 06 2025
While her stallion was busy protecting another mare in the band at a water source, Mariah took it upon herself to act as protector of the whole band against a stallion who was semi-patiently waiting in the wings with his own mare to get a nice, cool drink of water.
The quiet female force that gets things done when the guys aren’t looking. 😉
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Diagonals
23 06 2025
Flash returns to his band after a chat with a neighboring stallion near a water source.
Love the soft light and his quiet determination.
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Solstice glow
21 06 2025
Well, the ponies certainly put out the memo and made themselves available for summer solstice evening!
Heat, wind (“fire-weather (red-flag) warning/watch” and “wind advisory” – no joke), haze and dust aside, it was a gorgeous evening with four bands at the western boundary above Spring Creek canyon.
Winona and her band were the last left in the last light at the very top of the rimrocks, and she’s *always* a gorgeous model. Solstice night was no exception. 🙂 God and we love her.
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Summerlight
20 06 2025
Summer solstice is at 8:42 p.m. Mountain time – tonight. Sunset is (officially, at least) at 8:40 p.m. our time. (I say officially because the ridges to our southwest and northeast always make official times and actual times of sunset/moonrise and sunrise/moonset a bit different, sometimes up to half an hour different, depending on where you are relative to those ridges.)
This pic of Chipeta was taken a few days ago as she went with her band to evening water, but the lovely light illustrates that longest day of the year that marks the beginning of summer. That’s what all the experts say, but I tend to think of it more like almost midsummer because we’ve already been hot and dry and summer-like, and at this point, our planet’s tilt means we start shortening days and lengthening nights (I know, I know, it’s not at all scientific; living by the seasons, I tend to go more with feeling than straight science!).
Today and tomorrow, I’ll be out to try to get other solstice-evoking pix of the mustangs, and of course, I will share the best results. 🙂
Fortunately, we do still have decent water and abundant grasses and other vegetation, though I’m also eager for monsoon season later this summer, when we will *hopefully* be getting good rains to replenish ponds and catchments and vegetation … and spirits!
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Loveliest of lovely
19 06 2025
It wasn’t my intention to post pix nearly back to back of some of our lovely ladies of Spring Creek Basin, but they must want to be seen – and they’re too beautiful to NOT be seen.
This is lovely Piedra again, looking lovely the other evening as she watched some other mustangs across a deep arroyo from her band.
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Swishy strands
17 06 2025
Terra, patiently waiting … save the relentless swish of her tail against gnats and heat.
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Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 