What the …?!
This isn’t even the first cluster of balloons friend Kat Wilder or I have found in Disappointment Valley *this year* – as amazing as that might be to believe. When I first started wandering the hinterlands, I’d find a couple a year. Now, it’s as bad as finding four or five a year.
And yes, that’s water under the balloons – and horses are drinking there (or trying to).
Friends don’t let friends release balloons!
This photo was taken after some periods of blowing snow and before the snow that started to turn the ground damp (melting on contact; it wasn’t until later that the snow started to stick). Shaggy little boy S’aka is adapted for winter winds and snow.
Now that the snow that blanketed our region a couple of days ago is nearly completely gone, it’s misleading to continue to post snowy pix, but bear with me for one more of handsome Killian. 🙂
Disappointment Valley and Spring Creek Basin got at least 3 inches of snow from the crazy little system that came through the other day. And a day later … it’s nearly all gone again. If such moisture would appear as semi-regularly as that, we’d be in good shape! As it is, we’re so grateful for the additional moisture. You can literally hear it seeping into the ground!
Seneca and her pals are very fuzzy yet. We still have some winter before us!
… ye shall receive!
Happy dance! (That was me. … Reya neither confirmed nor denied her happiness at the snowstorm in Spring Creek Basin.)
The mustangs were just out of the frame to the left. 🙂
The “snow moon” – February’s full moon – rises tonight.
That snow? It’s pretty much gone. February feels like April … but we heard that we may get lucky in the snow department again in early March. Here’s hoping, hoping, hoping! Seneca and Killian already are using branches to ease itchy coats.
We need all the winter moisture we can get because we never know what the rest of the year will bring.
Comanche concentrated only on defense of his family from Chrome’s half-hearted challenge. But he looked awfully good doing it!
Mariah is a very typical young grey. And a very typically beautiful Spring Creek Basin mustang!
He puts the “ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” in ahhhhhhhhhhhh-mazing, doesn’t he? 🙂
