Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Bia loves her auntie Rowan. The feeling is mutual. 🙂

When the light hits their eyes and glows through like that … it’s like a planet full of wisdom and grace. Terra has wisdom in abundance, courtesy in part of her mum, Houdini.

When we say “she’s giving you the *eye* …” do we mean she’s passing on some of that wisdom? Giving you the opportunity to realize her wisdom, her gift of being in the world? I sure like to think (hope) so.

This young stallion wasn’t sure what to make of my buggy parked on the ridge. He wasn’t sure whether he should challenge it or give it a very wide berth. IT didn’t make any threatening moves, and pretty quickly, he dropped over the other side of the ridge and sought company with wise old Houdini. 🙂 (She’s no longer with the band I found her with earlier this winter, and she’s sticking to a pretty small area – that same area where I found her.)

Sometimes, under cloudy skies, you feel like the images you may get from a visit with the horses are going to be blah. … But often the camera will pick up these subtle, soft, pastel-like colors that you may not have been aware of while you were clicking because, mostly, you were enjoying being among the wave of ponies moving across a hill in search of yummy tidbits, even in the mud (and maybe the recent moisture made it all yummier).

It’s all about the experience and time well spent with mustangs in Spring Creek Basin.

The little bit of snow we got this morning wasn’t a measurable amount, but it added to the ground’s moisture. You can see a bit of Skywalker’s “mud boot” as he lifts his leg to explore another tasty bit. I can attest to the fact that mud-on-mud-boots (well, I was wearing hiking boots that were defacto mud boots given the conditions) is heavy, awkward and energy-draining. … The ponies take it all in stride (literally).

And snow. But not the sticking kind.

From Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning, we got 0.51 inch of rain (yes, rain). That’s nearly double what we got in all of January, and it left our ground riddled with puddles and gloriously soggy; that’s a lot for us at one time. We had two waves of snow yesterday afternoon, neither of which resulted in sticking snow.

We do appreciate the soggy conditions!

A little bitta mud never hurt a wild girl. 🙂 Cassidy Rain is looking forward to potential snow this week … and more chances to roll in the mud!