Wild wisdom

16 03 2024

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. 🙂





C’mon, snow

15 03 2024

Don’t look now, but the snow is coming.

Oh, wait, carry on. It didn’t make it actually into the valley from the southern ridges. (Argh!)

Buckeye and his family weren’t worried (by it coming or by it not actually reaching us). Of course. 🙂

While Denver and the Front Range of Colorado hog the snow (sorry about your “impossible driving conditions” as we continue to be super dry over here in, you know, the OTHER part(s) of the state), we’re hoping to get any bits of the dregs?! Pretty please?





Storm on a clear evening

14 03 2024

Storm graciously paused in his grazing – though not in his chewing – to give me a long look on a glorious evening. (I love how his long tail is casually draped over a bit of vegetation.) The ground was still somewhat damp from recent moisture, and graupel still held its “ball” shapes in little piles under bigger, sheltering shrubs like shadscale and four-wing saltbush. There was something to love for all of us.





Hopeful

13 03 2024

Lovely Seneca on another quiet, peaceful, beautiful evening in Spring Creek Basin. We’ve had a run of these ordinarily extraordinary days – that also happen to be very, mostly dry. Starting today, though, we have moisture in the forecast – for the next several days! If we get even a fraction of the forecast rain, snow or both, I’ll be doing cartwheels (or what passes for cartwheels at my age). 🙂





Lit by gold

12 03 2024

So-pretty Gaia looks absolutely gorgeous simply pursuing her evening grazing. Love her winter fringe. 🙂





I’m outta here

11 03 2024

This is what passes for Winona signalling that the visit with the weird human is at an end:

All photos presented in the order in which they were taken in a couple of fractions of a second. 🙂





Hmmm, she says

9 03 2024

Photographed with still-winterized greasewood between us, I’m about to get the one-ear treatment from Winona, too, as she considers her options for moseying on or staying where she is. She eventually moseyed on, giving me the head shake in passing. I’ll have a pic of that in a future post.





Patient

8 03 2024

If it seems as though most of the mustangs are napping in recent pix, you’d be right. That wind. … It’s exhausting. Maiku watched his pals check out a water source, but it wasn’t very appealing, and they walked on to find a better drinking spot.





Still well fuzzed

7 03 2024

Oh my gracious, isn’t she the loveliest!?

I’m glad she’s still fuzzy; maybe there’s still hope for us to get some more winter this winter.





One-ear interest

6 03 2024

His band was grazing up the hill to the (my) left (his right). I don’t know what held the interest of that one wayward ear. My interest, of course, was all on handsome Sundance and the magnificent background of his home world.