Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

We’ve been waiting for winter all, well, winter.

Sometimes, wishes DO come true.

The entire region got snow for pretty much two solid days.

Middle and lower Disappointment Valley got about 14 to 18 inches of snow.

If you live in Boston, you’re laughing. If you live in Southwest Colorado, you’re on your knees thanking all the gods and goddesses of nature. I’m on my knees, thankful, grateful. Relieved.

This is our summer grass, our summer ponds and creeks and rivers. This, my friends, is life in a dry land.

Welcome, winter. Thanks for the snow. 🙂

The legs of one of his band members frame Comanche in sunlit and shadowed edges. How handsome is that hunky horse?! 🙂

Still-fuzzy (and shedding) Seneca and Chipeta look gorgeous below McKenna Peak and Temple Butte.

The forecast shows wet stuff. Please, please, let us get some wet stuff.

Oh, Miss Chipeta. How my heart sings at your beauty.

Corona takes in the long view on another gorgeous, bluebird Colorado day.

A little less blue and a little more *wet* would be pretty welcome.

Kestrel and Comanche have been together for many years. Their bond is strong.

Beautiful girl Piedra has been enjoying a spa treatment in one of the basin’s ponds.

We had a chance of something wet falling last night, and those clouds seemed to hold some promise. But alas, the chance blew away on the stiff spring wind.

Caught-cha, big boy. 🙂 Corazon does his best to seem uninterested in anything beyond his band, but sometimes it’s possible to catch his curious gaze.

Below the grand promontory of Temple Butte, wild horses look quite at home in their magnificently wild home.

A slightly different angle shows the horses with McKenna Peak as their backdrop.

You’ll notice snow on the peaks and ridges and none in the basin. But the mud (from rain and melted snow) is divine.