Spring is here. Here’s the proof in the budding greasewood. 🙂
I’m always happy when I see the greasewood budding again. It’s a good source of protein that the mustangs eat like ice cream. I equate it with warming weather, shedding coats and plumping ponies.
This young stallion is following a bigger band – at a respectful distance. Even from the other side of a little ridge, he keeps an eye on the other horses.
Lingering clouds crown Utah’s La Sal Mountains, ever-present sentinels of our northwestern horizon.
Kestrel makes that horizon view so much more … wild.
I can’t really explain what captures me about this pic of Terra … but maybe it captures you, too.
Flash makes his way down a muddy trail from ridgetop to arroyo bottom. A band was drinking at the seep (there’s almost always water there) while he was moseying. By the time he arrived, they had mostly left and were grazing above the arroyo and below the neighboring ridgetop.
He may be losing his spots to his greyness, but he’s still a pretty striking young stallion!
Cassidy Rain and most of her band were on a big open flat, and a few other members of the band and I were about halfway up a hill still. Every now and then, she would pause her grazing and check in with her band mates. While they’re all always aware of the locations of each other, Cassidy Rain seems to have an innate “mothering” instinct that has her keeping close track of her friends.
It will be great to start seeing the shedding of that velvet coat for her slick ‘n shiny summer sleekness!
Sunshine on Reya after the storm. The ground is drying out now, but we had great mud after our recent great snow, rain and drizzle days. She’s still fuzzy, but the ponies are starting to shed. … Yesterday was the spring equinox; spring definitely is on the way.
Beautiful Bia is getting ready to celebrate her very first birthday, and she’s getting dressed up for the party! Every girl needs a little bling to celebrate a milestone. Ya gotta get it where ya find it!
Cheeky little baby doll! 🙂
Odin keeps his “aunties” Piedra and Kestrel company while napping – or was it the other way around? 🙂
Mysterium. Her wild wisdom is her classic “mystery.” We like to think we know it. How amazing would it be if we really knew the broad variety of the wisdom she knows and shares with her bandmates? How amazing would it be if we humans knew or could learn a fraction of the wisdom these wild ones know in their bones, through the ages and their mothers and mothers’ mothers?
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We had a wonderful little snowfall yesterday morning (from overnight). Nice and heavy and wet, and the parched ground and vegetation slurped it all up in practically record time. We might get more. We HOPE for more!
Mud is a good thing. 🙂
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 