
Keeping with the Spring Creek canyon theme, Cassidy Rain presents her take on the scene as she moseys along with the band, after drinking, on the way to more grazing.

Keeping with the Spring Creek canyon theme, Cassidy Rain presents her take on the scene as she moseys along with the band, after drinking, on the way to more grazing.

Just another lovely June evening in the basin with also-lovely Temple and and her family. 🙂 All seems right with the world when I’m out with the mustangs. … Some places do hold peace; I wish that could be true everywhere.

Maiku follows the family up from Spring Creek canyon. I was with another band, right along Spring Creek, when I happened to catch sight of them, at a fair distance, as they moseyed along the near horizon. Nice surprise. 🙂

Mariah, minus her theatrical appaloosa spots, at sunset on a SUPER windy evening in Spring Creek Basin.
Less wind, more rain, please, Mother Nature.

Heading TO Spring Creek Basin, I found the prince’s plume plants in full, crazy bloom. Why is this crazy, I hear you asking? Because they don’t usually bloom until May. IN Spring Creek Basin, the prince’s plumes I saw were a little behind these along Road K20E toward the basin, which makes sense as the basin is a bit higher elevation than along this road.

Heading OUT of Spring Creek Basin, the grey sky exploded with color at and post-sunset! Wowza. The weather wizards are giving us a whopping NINETY PERCENT chance of rain Wednesday. Do you know what Wednesday is? Wednesday is April 1, otherwise known as April Fools’ Day. Call me a fool a million times over, and please, please, PLEASE, let it RAINRAINRAIN!!!

Buckeye follows his mares (every stallion knows when to follow) along the north side of the Spring Creek arroyo toward the canyon in Spring Creek Basin. They’d just left a stretch of shallow, trickling water, where they drank their fill before moseying on to find some evening grazing.

Going back a couple of days, to the time before the wind when the mountains were still clear on the northwestern horizon.
I read an article recently about how lack of dust on the snow of the mountains is a good thing. … And it is (dust causes the snow to melt more rapidly). … But I imagine that those same researchers will find a pretty “good” layer of dust after this weekend, and that just joins the bad news of “skimpy snow” (according to the article) to begin with.
Still, we have to admire the positive, and that’s Flash and all our other wild ones in that magnificent landscape. … And pray for a wet(ter???) spring.

Gaia leads Juniper and Mysterium up a trail.
It looks pretty parched out there, but signs of spring are *everywhere*.

Back to current conditions, though this pic of Winona was taken the day before the snow-that-stuck-day (as opposed to the blowing-snow-didn’t-stick-at-all-days).
So peaceful … but we need a lot more of those snow-sticking days for the good of the rest of our year!