So this guy – and other elders just like him – can live wild and free.
Always.
The reason why
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Content
21 03 2018
Corazon naps in the warm spring sunshine in Spring Creek Basin. While we worry about lack of moisture, the ponies enjoy the niceness of the moment(s).
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At ease
12 03 2018
Do you love Terra’s little smile? 🙂
And why wouldn’t she smile? She lives in a place close to heaven.
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Stopover, Spring Creek Basin style
4 03 2018
She gets a perfect 10 for nailing her landing. 🙂
And she totally knows how to rock a pose.
Not quite synchronized, but we’ll give them props for interspecies partnership. 🙂
Two bands were at the pond with the goose (and though I called it “her” and “she,” I don’t actually know its gender), and they were very interested in her bold vocalizations. She was by herself; hopefully her mate (?) will join her soon. Tis the season.
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Maybe more …
2 03 2018
… is coming Sunday. 🙂
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Surprise snow
23 02 2018
Disappointment Valley and the surrounding area got a surprise snowfall Wednesday night and Thursday morning – or at least the timing was a surprise. Any snow is a surprise – and welcome! – this “winter,” frankly, after the terrible dryness.
Southwestern Colorado is classified now as “extreme” on the drought monitor. … As if we didn’t know.
But we have more in our forecast, and hopefully some will stick around. By late afternoon, the above, pictured with lovely Reya, was all that was left of a couple of inches of the wonderful wet whiteness.
…
C’mon, MORE! 🙂
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Soft grey
20 02 2018
Pretty Juniper models her shaggy winter-mustang look as she walks past McKenna Peak and Temple Butte. We got a bit of winter moisture … some rain, some snow, some graupel. Some of it even stuck. Briefly. 🙂
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Just another gorgeous red girl
16 02 2018
Gaia the gorgeous is such a cover model. 🙂
She does a heart – not good – but wonderful!
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Nice spot for a nap
7 02 2018
Young Killian found a perfectly photogenic spot for a nap in Spring Creek Basin … with Temple Butte looming beautifully in the background.
Disappointment Valley got rain in places and snow in places overnight Monday and early Tuesday morning. It’s just a little, but it’s hugely needed.
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Rising and rising
1 02 2018
The moon rose hugely Tuesday night.
Wednesday morning, I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes early enough to *see* the bloody lunar eclipse but not quite early enough to get out and capture the bloody lunar eclipse on digital media. I’m not sure whether it disappeared for lack of light (it was pretty dim when I did see it, with just a sliver of silver moon showing at the very bottom of the orb) or whether clouds obscured it. Noticeably, no stars were visible in a fairly wide band above the horizon. By the time the sky was light enough to see detail, bloody clouds (they weren’t red …) were low above the western ridges.
But sunrise was briefly and sweetly – one might say bloody – spectacular. 🙂
Why yes, Virginia, that IS Temple Butte, silhouetted against the dawn. 🙂
Did you see the eclipse? How awed were you?? Share in the comments! 🙂
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