Sweet Mysterium rocks her winter beard. 🙂
The temp hit 71F yesterday. March 9. In Colorado.
“Winter” this year was just a word. The ponies are shedding.
Bearded lady
10 03 2026Comments : 6 Comments »
Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Glow
9 03 2026
Rowan wasn’t super happy about Aiyanna jumping her place in line and trotting past leader-Ro, but they sure were pretty in that scrumptious light!
(The snow, of course, is melted. Grateful for the moisture … looking forward to anything to come with hopeful anticipation!)
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Bull’s eye
7 03 2026
It wasn’t until I got out there with Sancho and the bands that I realized how LUCKY Spring Creek Basin got with the snow. Lower Disappointment Valley (especially center and right background, which is sort of westish) either didn’t get snow or didn’t get snow that stuck … or maybe it was rain? (Spring Creek Basin is within Disappointment Valley.)
The sunshine came out while I was with the mustangs, but …
… in that far distance (western/southwestern Disappointment Valley, and the Dolores River canyon(s) is out there), another wave of snow was drifting across the landscape.
By the time I got back to my buggy after a two-mile round-trip hike, the eastern part of the basin was under beautiful sunshine, but the sky to the north/northwest/west/southwest was DARK. I didn’t go far heading out before I was back into the wind-driven snowstorm.
It was WET snow, and it was melting fast. By the end of the day (before then for a lot of areas), most of that snow had soaked right into the very desperate soil, which is a huge relief and blessing.
YaYaYaYaYAYAYAYAY! 🙂
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Categories : Colorado, Disappointment Valley, Snow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Super serene saunter
6 03 2026
With any hope at all, by the time you take a gander at this post this morning, our world will be white … according to the forecast Thursday afternoon! I’m not sure I believe it … but I’m hoping with all my might!
Update forthcoming (hopefully a good update) … !
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Categories : Filly Peak, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Fly by bay
5 03 2026
Tenaz and the band flew past me as I sat on my buggy on the road. All I could do was focus and shoot – and I did!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Summer March
4 03 2026
Looks like a summer pic, right? This was the evening before the eclipse. That’s Rowan.
Also crazy? While the sunshine flowed over the landscape from the clear southwestern, western and northwestern sky, total cloud cover everywhere else prevent us from seeing the moonRISE that night!
Forecasters are trying to cheer us (Coloradans) up with an optimistic snow forecast by/before March 16. Meanwhile, mostly, partly lotsa sunshine. At least it’s not all 60-degree temps. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Earth beauty
1 03 2026
Once you see Terra’s femmy little mustachio, you canNOT unsee it. 🙂
Is she the cutest, or what!
(Yes, that white in the background is snow … it’s also FAR away and doesn’t help us at all.)
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Still fuzzy
28 02 2026
Another 60F-plus day. The ponies are semi-shedding.
Juniper hasn’t graced the blog for a while, but here she is, still fuzzy and glamorous in the evening light. It’s hard to remember that it’s February. The days are a little longer every day. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Glorious girl
27 02 2026
Cassidy Rain never quiiiiite properly looked up from her grazing at me (for me?), but she’s so beautiful, and that background was so glorious and dramatic (yay, clouds, but no rain on another 65F day), that I figured it’d do.
Am I wrong?
No. No, I am not. 🙂
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Categories : Knife Edge, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Another warm one
26 02 2026
Yesterday was another day when the temperature hit at least 65F. I wish those clouds had given us moisture, like the several-days-ago-forecast hinted was possible, but all the atmosphere delivered was more wind.
Fortunately, Alegre and her band are finding water (look at that mud!). I think it’s a pond that’s no longer (easily) accessible because of washouts across the road.
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Categories : Brumley Point, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 