Fuzzy Winona-girl is going to need that fluff the next few days as temps plunge with the incoming Arctic blast. Not as cold as elsewhere in Colorado – or even northern parts of the country! – but cold enough. Brrrrr! Stay warm!
Polar-vortex-ready mustang
18 01 2025Comments : 6 Comments »
Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
In no hurry
17 01 2025
When it’s time to go, it’s time to go, and Maiku dutifully follows. But he’s almost never in a hurry.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Snow = snooze time
16 01 2025
Snowy weather almost always brings out the snoozies in the wild ponies. When I took this pic of Madison and Temple napping, there was another napping-on-the-ground horse to the right and THREE others, all lying down, to the left. Two of those three were standing when I first approached, but they ended up lying down with the others, leaving only the lieutenant stallion standing-napping a fairly close distance away.
I’d walked out to them, then to another band a bit farther away, and I took this pic as I was headed back to the road. In the mud, it wasn’t as easy a hike as on dry ground. Why not join them? It was a good time and excuse to stretch out and take a nap among friends. 🙂
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Categories : Filly Peak, Snow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
The blues
15 01 2025
There’s not quite as much snow under-hoof as there appears to be in this image with Skywalker, still wet from recently falling snow. … But at this point, ANY little bit is needed and welcome.
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Categories : Snow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Winter bay boy
13 01 2025
There’s Tenaz, showing off his glorious bay coat in all its winter fuzziness again. 🙂 Windy and cold, but the mustangs don’t seem to mind a bit.
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
All Flash, not much snow
12 01 2025
When a wild pony poses, you generally have about 2.7 seconds to either take the shot or get into position to take the shot … or you don’t get the shot because wild ponies don’t generally hang about posing for paparazzi.
Flash did me a super solid and posed for probably at least 12.8 seconds before he moseyed on after his mares.
Plenty ‘o time. 🙂
That’s snow in the background, swirling and whirling with the wind between us and McKenna Peak and Temple Butte. It snowed in the morning, too, but other than the far eastern ridges of Spring Creek Basin, it left nothing behind. … And by the time I took this pic in the evening, most of what had stuck to those ridges was gone again.
Keep trying, Mother Nature. We need that moisture badly (and that makes me think of the terrible wildfires in California, where I read they’ve had just 0.16 inch of moisture since May … ouch. THAT is just astoundingly dry). Keep trying, Mother Nature. …
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Categories : Knife Edge, McKenna Peak, Snow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Moon over Sancho
11 01 2025
This isn’t the most flattering angle of Sancho, but I was walking down a narrow, not-too-deep arroyo, and he came to see what the heck I was doing down there, and with the moon already way high in the bright-blue-clear sky, I decided to see if he’d stay where he was while I did some low-to-the-ground gyrations to get the moon above him. 🙂
The full wolf moon will rise full on Monday evening.
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Categories : Moon, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Mustang yoga
9 01 2025
Forget the goats. Join the mustangs for a little stretching session. 🙂
That’s McKenna Peak in the background, still under foggy snow. We got a skiff of snow that morning (Tuesday morning), but it didn’t last long. Nor did it make the ground any kind of damp when it was gone. Our need for snow is getting a bit desperate.
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Snow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Arched
8 01 2025
Because … who can get *too much* Flash!? 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Standing tall
7 01 2025
Flash pauses on high ground while his mares continue on to water at a pond back in late December.
There were a few spots of snow on the ground, still, then. We have a bit of snow in our forecast for tomorrow morning. Clouds were low most of yesterday (a lot like those pictured), and mountains already were getting some to maybe a decent snowfall. Cross your fingers; Flash and his mares and the rest of the herd need some winter moisture!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 