Our air is getting dusty again: dry conditions and spring winds.
Mariah doesn’t seem to mind as she chases the green and growing things.
Dusty grey
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Patient
8 03 2024
If it seems as though most of the mustangs are napping in recent pix, you’d be right. That wind. … It’s exhausting. Maiku watched his pals check out a water source, but it wasn’t very appealing, and they walked on to find a better drinking spot.
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
One-ear interest
6 03 2024
His band was grazing up the hill to the (my) left (his right). I don’t know what held the interest of that one wayward ear. My interest, of course, was all on handsome Sundance and the magnificent background of his home world.
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
The sight to see
22 02 2024
In the space between napping and rousing and grazing, Seneca gives me her sweet look as if to ask if I also see the fabulous scenery. Yes, indeed, dear girl. I see you.
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Who goes there
18 02 2024
If a rival stallion is within view, he’s worth taking notice of. Buckeye not only noticed the stallion (and his band), he actually walked halfway toward him (a distance of maybe half a mile). Only after those horses had dropped out of sight over a ridge did Buckeye return to his family. Potential crisis apparently averted. All well in Buckeye’s world.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
That one moment
15 02 2024
When photographing Corazon, one has to be ready for the one moment when he looks up from grazing, ears pricked with interest and eye(s) glowing – the one moment in many long moments of otherwise peaceful, quiet wandering – to hit the shutter and capture his handsome self.
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Layers of gold
3 02 2024
Mariah browses along with her band, near a bigger band. The rimrocks of Spring Creek canyon always make for a gorgeous backdrop.
It was one of a stretch of very beautiful, very warm (for late January in Colorado!) days. Then, the forecast finally hit the weather prediction right on the nose, and we got rain early Friday morning. How much? More than we got during the entire month of January! We got 0.30 inch, which doesn’t seem like much … but see that sentence about it being more moisture than we got in all of January! Lots more chances coming up: Fingers and hooves crossed!
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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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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
The art of crystal (snow)
8 01 2024Well, we kinda got skunked again on snow – the big, hyped, “inches and inches are coming!” winter-weather-warning snowfall – yesterday, but we do have snow on the ground still from Friday’s surprise event – thank goodness. We got no measurable snow from Sunday, though we did have a couple of brief waves of blowing flakes, and there was snow all around Disappointment Valley.
The following pix are of snow/ice crystals on grass stalks and sagebrush in Spring Creek Basin on Friday.
It was so much more beautiful and magical than I can convey in photos.
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek canyon, Temple Butte
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 