From my vantage point with another band, I saw these lovelies lined out walking toward a pond in the distance.
We’re really all just small critters in this great, wide and wild world of ours.
See them?
See the other thems? 🙂
Lined out
14 12 2023Comments : 6 Comments »
Categories : Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Companionable
13 12 2023
With winter coats like those, mustangs can nap comfortably even with a nippy wind swirling.
And with a view like that, who wouldn’t want to peacefully linger?
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Lavender land
12 12 2023
The clouds were playing tag with the lowering sun, and while I was waiting for a bit more light on the scene, the subtle light was just divine.
Despite the sharp wind, Sundance was perfectly at ease. I was perfectly glad of all my layers!
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Bright-eyed boy
10 12 2023
Storm. My handsome heart.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Glorious bay, part 2
9 12 2023
I mean, really!
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Glorious bay
8 12 2023
Oh, I do love a rich bay mustang against the glorious white of pristine snow! Madison the beautiful.
(This post refers back to fresh-snow scenery from the last storm. I have this one and another that I’d like to share before the next snowstorm hits Disappointment Valley!)
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Shadow drinker
7 12 2023
Shadow approaches the running stream that is Spring Creek for a drink.
With daytime temperatures at or slightly above 50 degrees, there’s liquid water for the horses to drink from shady-spot snow still melting.
Love her natural (probably greasewood) mane adornments!
(Although this is down in the Spring Creek arroyo, you can see the lack of snow, which is the current land condition. There are still infrequent patches of snow in the north-facing and/or shady areas, but mostly, the basin is free of snow, though still damp to muddy in most places. We have snow in the forecast for Friday.)
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Categories : Spring Creek, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Down low
6 12 2023
While standing on the lower side of a little hillock, waiting for horses to appear from the other side, with McKenna Peak and Temple Butte in the background, Skywalker sauntered by at about eye level.
Hi, big guy!
Love his snowy muzzle. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Feelin’ frisky
5 12 2023
Who *doesn’t* feel frisky with a couple of inches of fresh snow on the ground and warm sunshine on your fuzzy coat!? Odin is full of spunk. 🙂
(The snow is mostly melted into the needy soil again, but you won’t blame me for sharing more pix from the day we had a snowclad basin during the next few days.)
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Bonus gifts
4 12 2023
Not only did we get the gift of snow Friday, I saw Hollywood on Saturday. 🙂
He’s thin (much more thin than I’d like to see him at this time of year (or any time of year)), but he seems to be relatively OK. He drank at the edge of a frozen pond, then walked away on a trail to the spot where I found him napping in the (relatively) warm sunlight. He didn’t acknowledge my presence much at all (which was OK as it meant he wasn’t bothered), and I was able to walk around and get a good look at him. I couldn’t tell about his eye (napping, he had both of them mostly closed), but other than being thin, he doesn’t seem to have any particular injuries.
He did pick a very scenic location to stop for a midday nap. 🙂
Bonus: Hollywood’s scenery looking across Spring Creek Basin and Disappointment Valley to Utah’s La Sal Mountains, looking pristine under a cover of fresh snow.
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon, Temple Butte
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 