Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Ravens – the winged kind – are wheeling and soaring and diving, ready for spring.

Raven – our grounded girl – is soaking up sweet sunshine in a land of quickly melting snow.

A good deal of that fabulous snow is now melted, but who doesn’t appreciate that scenery? And the background is pretty nice, too. 😉

We still have a nice cover of snow … but it’s melting rapidly, and we have temps near 60 – SIXTY – in the forecast! The parched ground is soaking up the snow super-fast.

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In another note, thanks to a comment from reader TamrahJo, I remembered this pic that I took with my phone a couple of days ago while snowshoeing out to a couple of bands in the basin:

The first “shape” I saw was the big “heart.” It looks like someone drew the lines with a stick or something, but I promise you that that “someone” was NOT me, nor was there any evidence at all of another human being out there (there’s almost never any other evidence of humans hiking where I hike).

I can’t explain it, but with all the hate rampant in the world, I’d like to offer this image and what it (might) represent (to humans, anyway) as a simple antidote: From Mother Nature to the world, with love.

We definitely have snow – and mud when the sunshine starts working on all that snow. 🙂

The important part of that is that … we definitely have SNOW, which is to say that we have moisture.

It is SO good to have moisture. I’m sure Temple would agree!

There’s a whole lotta brown out there in Spring Creek Basin these days. And because these days are in February, that’s a cause for a fair bitta concern.

Fortunately, we have Hollywood to liven up the scene. 🙂

With the light and color, Seneca almost seems camouflaged, eh? Except that she’s much too beautiful to simply “blend in”!

Dundee, Rowan and Aiyanna, our Sand Wash Basin beauties, are very much at home in Spring Creek Basin. They’re still with their stallion, Buckeye, who is a laidback kinda guy.

Doesn’t she have the sweetest face and prettiest eyes? So engaged and curious.

While she and her bandsisters were in the shade of the hill that falls northward from the rimrocks, Temple Butte and McKenna Peak and Spring Creek Basin’s eastern ridges were still lit by the setting sun.

Just a coupla beautiful mustang girls, napping in the winter sunlight. 🙂 Piedra and Kestrel have been friends since Piedra was young and Kestrel even younger (a baby!). They haven’t always been in the same band, but they have been for the last several years.