Not “blue” and not even quite full in the pic above, but enhanced by proximity to a *super* mustang!
Once again, I have no idea what Sundance was looking at (a nearby hillside?), but I’m grateful he saw whatever he saw because NOBODY ELSE was at all interested in anything other than chasing the amazing green. (And the green is just fabulous!)
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THIS was the full blue supermoon, rising super bright Wednesday night over Disappointment Valley!
Most beautiful boy (Storm).
Hollywood seems to have settled into a fairly regular area with abundant grass (!) and water not far away. Another band or two are often in the area. He seems content and doesn’t seek to be with them at all.
He’s thin, still. … More thin than I’d hoped to see him at this point in late summer. But he’s still doing all right. The big open wound on his hip is closed but for a slight grey scar. His right (injured) eye is open more than it was, but I’m still not sure how much sight he has in it.
I hung out with him for a fair while and talked to him, and he didn’t seem to mind my company and prattling on. The grass was too good to worry about a mere human, maybe. After I left him, I looked back, and he was still peacefully grazing and swishing away flies. On go his days.
Kestrel, of course, is golden in any light, at any time of day.
I did take care on my hike out and back – as I usually do – to step on bare ground and not the valuable green growing grass. It’s amazing how much is out there all of a sudden with the wonderful rains.
No time to draw out the big camera, but these ponies were good enough to hang out next to the road while I aimed my cell phone in their direction. Wonder of technology meets natural wild. What times we live in. 🙂
See ’em?
This was the morning after the storm, low clouds still wreathing McKenna Peak, Temple Butte and the eastern ridges of Spring Creek Basin. The above pic was taken from outside the basin looking in.
At middle-left, on the near hill, see ’em?
Flash and his buddies, just hanging out.
By the “dark” of the hills, you can tell the ground is rain-saturated.
Speaking of tenacious (Skywalker, yesterday), Tenaz knows what it takes to keep his band together against all comers.
No matter how many times he gets run off from the main band, Skywalker keeps coming back around. Family can be prickly … but there’s a place for them all. 🙂
Maiku watches the progress of a lone bachelor stallion away from the band he serves as lieutenant. The band was moseying along behind him, more interested in grazing after drinking … seemingly content and trusting that Maiku was on duty.
A storm was sorta kinda trying to build up to the east. It didn’t make it to us, but we’re hoping for similar promising weather this week.
Storm puts some *oomph* behind his assertion that another stallion’s presence isn’t welcome. The other stallion got the message.
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Happy 90th birthday – !!!! – to my good friend Roy, who grew up in Disappointment Valley and still comes to see the mustangs in the spring and in the fall. I think Storm would agree with me that Roy is always welcome, and any friend(s) of his are friends of ours!
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 