Mariah was not impressed about being disturbed from her nap in the shade. I didn’t bother them long as I investigated the sound of water trickling and discovered it to be rain-remnant water trickling over rock down an arroyo just behind her band. Amazing!
By tomorrow morning (?), she might want more sunshine than shade as temps are predicted to drop to freezing for the first time this season!
Mysterium contemplates … something? … while grazing with her band in the still-muddy eastern part of Spring Creek Basin. Spring Creek is still trickling, and the horses had been drinking there before making their way up this ridge.
I’d have loved to catch the ponies there, at the pond, drinking that glorious rainwater. … But I can’t begin to tell you how much I LOVED to see that glorious rainwater, its still surface mirroring the sky like glass.
I may have shouted and screamed and whooped and hollered with pretty massive, uncontainable joy. 🙂
Water, folks. It’s pure gold.
I’d like to say that Temple was just contemplating the bounty of the recent rains and the continuing benefit of being able to drink from a pond and not slurp from a seep. … But really, she was just watching her band members on the far side of the pond while she and two other band members drank from this side of the pond.
After a morning of drizzles, the sky cleared to that perfect Colorado-blue, then started to cloud up again ahead of overnight rain. Gotta love it – and we do!
Tenaz models a bit of autumn color among the rabbitbrush and willows in a shallow drainage while keeping an eye on the band. A bit different perspective, but it makes him seem a bit … mysterious? 🙂
Prettiest of girls (we have a lot of those, and they’re all the prettiest!) Temple, napping in the sunshine.
“Hey, I’m trying to nap with my bestie over here.”
“No worries, pal. It’s just that weird two-legged who’s always clicking at us. Back to the snooze.”
Tenaz, I might add, never even twitched an ear in my direction. 🙂
This is one of at least two ponds in Spring Creek Basin that are holding water again after recent rains.
The mustangs aren’t the only ones taking advantage of the improved water sources, and I like to imagine that I am close to as happy about the development as they are. 🙂
The days are cooler; the days are shorter. Fall is upon us.
I know there’s not much about this pic of Buckeye that says “fall,” but when I’m wearing three layers while taking the pix and the ponies are starting to add to their hair coats, *I* know it’s fall. 🙂
Sweet baby Bia … not so baby anymore. 🙂 Looking gorgeous in the sunset light as she follows her band.
Buckeye was nibbling on galleta near the base of this piñon or juniper tree … and keeping an eye on me at the same time. Never UNaware, those mustangs.
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 