Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Ever watchful, our Mistress Chipeta.

Ever watchful from the *other* side of her girlfriends. 🙂

All that remarkable grass. Gaia and her bandmates are in grazing heaven.

The forecast can’t make up its mind whether we have rain on the way or not. … I’m hopefully in the “on the way” camp.

I love how Dundee not only shares the swish-power of her tail but also some of her zebra stripes with Rowan. 🙂

There’s a lot of mutual bug-relief-seeking behavior among the horses, including Juniper and one of her band mates.

With the good moisture and lush vegetation (maybe not to some, but it is to us!) comes the dreaded gnats. They’ve been out for a month or more, of course, but the hordes seem even more horrid and obnoxious since the rains. Mosquitoes, too, if you can believe it.

It’s hot and dry again, and we’re ready for the next teaser of rain to show up in the forecast.

As they do with everything else, the mustangs – like Buckeye – take the bugs in stride … but I think it has to make them at least a little bit crazy. It makes this human a lot crazy.

Sundance.

‘Nuff said.

Handsome Sundance catches the light just right among the pinon and juniper shadows of Spring Creek Basin’s north hills.

(Oops – a bit late this morning! I thought I had posts scheduled for the weekend.)

Juniper shines in a swath of late light that illuminates both her and the yummy galleta grass she and her band and at least four other bands were taking advantage of in the – apparently well-watered! – north hills. That rain was such an incredible and huge boon for this entire region. Spring Creek Basin and its mustangs and other wildlife are taking advantage.

On this day celebrating American independence and freedom, let’s actually celebrate the freedom of independence.

Smile at someone today. You never know what big thing a little gesture might mean to someone.

Above: Sundance greets young Odin during a gathering of bands on a glorious evening.