Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

With all the greys of varying shades in Spring Creek Basin, not to mention the winter-brown shades of the snowless landscape, lovely Gaia also provides a bright spot on cloudy days when no rain or snow falls.

This pic was taken on the first day of 2024 – as were a number of others – and it (and they) never got posted because it snowed soon afterward, and I posted *those* pix. … We got a couple of encouraging little snowfalls … and since then, bupkus*. As in zilch, nada, nichts, nyet. And I’m as upset with the forecasters as I am with Mother Nature currently. Irrationally, I know, but C’MON! Please??

So I thought a nice, happy, bright pic of one of my favorite families would cheer me up – and you readers along with me.

Please: Say some prayers, appeal to the universe, Ma Nature, Father Winter, dance in the moonlight snow (it IS getting bright out there, though there’s no snow on our ground to reflect it), whatever you think might jog some moisture loose from the sky. We’re in desperate need of snow (or rain). …

(* Who knew, but bubkes (correct spelling) actually is a word. Find the meaning of it here.)

I promised a “more dignified” image of Reya, and with that promise and a wish for snow that’s not finding its way to Spring Creek Basin and lower Disappointment Valley, here’s a snowy pic of Reya.

Maybe Mother Nature will hear our appeal and drop some snow on us. …

Mariah (see below) appeared at the top of a little knoll above me as I was taking pix of horses slightly below *me*.

She’s looking at them while I’m admiring her.

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Update! I realized I left out a couple of very important letters when naming the beauty pictured above. This isn’t Maia, it’s MARIAH! Ha. So sorry!

I’ll have more dignified pix of Reya in the near future, but I’m posting this one because, although she’s known me since she was a weanling (which was a year or 17 ago), she’s the only horse in Spring Creek Basin who continues to blow at me. It *still* makes me laugh, which, I’m sure, is NOT the reaction she’s going for (if she were actually “going for” a reaction). 🙂

Lady Houdini is showing her age every time I see her lately. It’s a hard time of winter right now with a fair covering of snow and very frigid temperatures. These are difficult challenges she’s met numerous times in her very long life, but at her age (30s, as best as I can tell), it’s still just hard on the old girl.

In another development, I found her not with Flash but with another young stallion. I’d been seeing them – from a distance – recently, so I don’t know what happened or exactly when. She’s in a completely different area of the basin now with her new band: three other mares, one of whom she knew from her years with Hollywood. Whatever else, I’m glad she has mare company.