Stopover, Spring Creek Basin style

4 03 2018

Canada goose on roller-coaster ridge pond.

She gets a perfect 10 for nailing her landing. 🙂

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And she totally knows how to rock a pose.

Canada goose on roller-coaster ridge pond; Kwana

Not quite synchronized, but we’ll give them props for interspecies partnership. 🙂

Two bands were at the pond with the goose (and though I called it “her” and “she,” I don’t actually know its gender), and they were very interested in her bold vocalizations. She was by herself; hopefully her mate (?) will join her soon. Tis the season.





The best beige

3 03 2018

Kestrel

Always calm, always wise Kestrel. We hope the wind is bringing moisture.





Maybe more …

2 03 2018

Storm; McKenna Peak, Temple Butte

… is coming Sunday. 🙂





Complementary

1 03 2018

Killian

Most of the last of the snow we got recently has melted into the soil by now.

Handsome, still-dark Killian is the picture of studliness as he keeps tabs on another band in the basin.

Happy March! It might take a couple of days, but the lion’s roar is expected by the weekend.





Wispy

28 02 2018

Shadow; Brumley Point

Ahead of the second snowfall – and after – we’ve had some wind. The thirsty ground is slurping the moisture as desperately as you’d imagine.

 





Dream white

27 02 2018

S'aka

Little S’aka looks like a dream in his wonderland.





Red, white and blue (and some green and brown)

26 02 2018

Gaia

Sigh.

Eat your hearts out, boys. She’s taken. 🙂





Skywalker on the frozen planet

25 02 2018

Skywalker

Look at all that lovely summer green.

What, you ask?!

All that winter white means summer green (or least not as brown as it could be). And that is why, every single time it snows (or rains), we are so, so, SO very grateful.

We humans look forward, but the mustangs live in the moment. And right now, they don’t have to go far for a “drink” while they graze. They slurp as they nibble. 🙂





Little Mr. Hot-to-Trot

24 02 2018

Maiku

Maiku struts his handsome self for the ladies … none of whom were particularly impressed. 🙂

The ground is white again after a fabulous and long snowfall Friday! Yay, moisture!

So grateful.





Surprise snow

23 02 2018

Reya; Temple Butte

Disappointment Valley and the surrounding area got a surprise snowfall Wednesday night and Thursday morning – or at least the timing was a surprise. Any snow is a surprise – and welcome! – this “winter,” frankly, after the terrible dryness.

Southwestern Colorado is classified now as “extreme” on the drought monitor. … As if we didn’t know.

But we have more in our forecast, and hopefully some will stick around. By late afternoon, the above, pictured with lovely Reya, was all that was left of a couple of inches of the wonderful wet whiteness.

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C’mon, MORE! 🙂