Spring Creek Basin mustangs

Bright spot

15 01 2024

Sweet ‘n curious, that’s our girl Rowan. 🙂

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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte

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.

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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs

Brrrr

13 01 2024

Something about this image – the shade? – makes this scene look *cold* to me. Does it convey that feeling to you?

It WAS cold, and the wind didn’t help (unless you mean helping it seem even colder than the air temp).

This was late in the afternoon, and I’d been out for a couple of hours. Not much later, and my camera (battery) was struggling to work because it was so cold, even mostly sheltered in my pack. My old Canon is a workhorse, but cold is cold!

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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs

The look

12 01 2024

A face not just mothers love.

Gosh, Tenaz is soooooo handsome!

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Snowy saunter

11 01 2024

While the band napped, Skywalker foraged in the snow, lookin’ all handsome-like as he moseyed. 🙂

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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon

Well cloaked

10 01 2024

All those rich hues of brown and gold in a “simple” bay coat! Love.

And yummy snow-coated grasses!

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Frosty

9 01 2024

Fresh frosty ice lacing on Chipeta.

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Power of wishful thinking

7 01 2024

If complaining about lack of snow leads to more unforecast snow in the future, I’ll do it!

After Thursday’s bomb, snow-wise, our next big snowfall was supposed to be Sunday (today). Snow Friday night/Saturday morning was NOT in the forecast – until late Friday night. But with no tell-tale blue blobs in the vicinity Friday night, I went to bed thinking it was wrong or wouldn’t amount to anything.

Saturday morning, I woke up to 2 inches of glorious snow! Please, chuckle along with me at the forecasters. As high-tech as weather forecasting is these days, even they don’t always get it right. 🙂

Mother Nature still rules, and as surprises go, this was an awesome one!

I schedule all my posts at least the evening ahead of their publication time, so I don’t always see into the future, either. With any luck – and good forecasting – we’ll be waking up to (more) snow, as has been in the forecast for the past week!

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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte