From windswept snow that didn’t stick Thursday to about 4 inches as of yesterday afternoon.
Old Man Winter finally came to call. 🙂
Shortly after I took this photo of Hayden and Raven, a “wave” of snow blew in that lasted about an hour. Visibility was so low that one band of horses trotted across the road ahead of me before I knew they were there. They were ghosts in the blizzard.
It’s good to see white on the land again.
What a difference a day makes! Or, rather, a night. 🙂
The south wind blew snow in waves across Disappointment Valley and Spring Creek Basin on Christmas Day, but not a flake of it stuck to the warm, dry ground.
Yesterday’s photo of Temple was taken during one of those waves of snow, right before sunset. The sun already was coming back into view from beyond the clouds and snow, and you can see the brown of the basin behind the jewels of snowflakes swirling around Temple.
Then, late after the sky cleared for the stars, we had snow in the night, and we woke up to a white, white world!
Courtesy of Mother Nature. 🙂
May your days be merry and bright, and may all your Christmases have at least a touch of *wild* magic!
May the magic of the season be with you now and throughout the year!
More camouflage from our lovely pinto ladies Puzzle and Spirit.
As you can see, we still have snow in places in Spring Creek Basin. Most of lower Disappointment Valley is long bare of snow from the last dusting we got. We’re still hoping for some moisture this week around Christmas. Our chances fade and return and fade. We’re hoping for more returning and less fading!
Sometimes, titles and wording of explanation come to mind easily for blog posts.
Sometimes, there’s not any word or string of words that can accurately convey the feeling of the moment a single image portrays.
Spring Creek Basin. Temple. La Sal Mountains. Moisture. Forage. Light. Color. Beauty.
Grateful.
The sound of the helicopter had reached us, and Comanche and Kestrel were searching for the source of the noise. You can see it as the weird white dot in the sky immediately to the right of McKenna Peak. It flew over the eastern side of the basin and over the northern ridge and Horse Park.
It didn’t bother them too much, but they watched until the sound faded.
Shane contemplates the sunset basin from her perch on a ridge in the east.
Both rims of Spring Creek canyon are visible at middle-ground right.
