Copper, Tesora and Puzzle strike classic mustang poses (“we’re watching you!”) below one of Spring Creek Basin’s iconic landmarks, Brumley Point. Brumley looks different (quite a bit different) depending on the angle from which you view it. My favorite view is the one with mustangs in the foreground. 🙂
Maiku achieves suspension during a chat with Ty – over a girl, naturally.
See the white bits around Mysterium? Nooo, those aren’t gnats (hopefully they froze). They’re itty bitty flakes of snow.
It wasn’t much to wet the soil (or the horses), but that night, lower Disappointment Valley got rain, and the tops of some landforms in Spring Creek Basin (Filly Peak, Flat Top, Round Top, Brumley Point) got snow. The eastern ridges definitely got snow. From a little higher than mid-valley comes a report of a couple of inches of snow, and at Groundhog Reservoir (southeast of Spring Creek Basin and 1,000 or so feet higher), a report of about 3 inches of snow. A nice little spring snowfall.
Corazon looks plenty stout, doesn’t he? He’s a mature band stallion, exact age unknown.
Now look at him next to almost-7-year-old Storm. 🙂
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In good news, Disappointment Valley and Spring Creek Basin got moisture! It looked like snow, but it felt more like rain. It barely dampened the top layer of soil, but rain came in the night. The earth says “ahhhhhhh”!
Terra was having a windy-day hair day with hazy McKenna Peak and Temple Butte in the background.
Snow and rain is in the local forecast. Flurries flew over the basin yesterday but didn’t even wet the soil.
C’mon, rain. You know you want to soak and seep and make mud.
Shadow against smoky haze. We’re looking for relief from always-sunny skies, but smoke wasn’t really what we had in mind. Fortunately, the dreaded wind has cleared away the smoke, but rain would do the job in a much more welcome way!
Ty with his long-time love, Chipeta. As in any relationship, it’s not always smooth sailing, but she relies on him, and he relies on her.
Not always, of course, but it was the case this day with Copper and Seven. 🙂
Pretty, pretty Piedra.
It’s not so hot (yet), but it’s dry. It’s windy. It’s dusty. It’s smoky (yes, prescribed burns are happening – at least three contributing to a hazy sky over Disappointment Valley); in some pix to come, you’ll see the effects. Rumor has it that Southwest Colorado should get spring rain. It’s April. We’re ready, already.
Oh, yeah. And the gnats are here. Already.
** Update: We have rain in the forecast! Now to hope it stays in the forecast. The last day I saw rain in the forecast, it was out of the forecast the very next day.
Grey ladies Alegre, Maia and Houdini are with a bay girl, Shane. The three are close; the one is rather independent.
