Big love to all moms, for taking care of us, supporting us, encouraging us, loving us!
Today, we thank you for all that you do for us, and we hope in turn that you feel cared for, supported, encouraged … and LOVED! 🙂
Particularly, I thank my mom. She’s the best! 🙂
Mariah and Winona nap in the breeze under a passing cloud in front of beloved Temple Butte.
On Easter, remembering a happier day, when I didn’t pick up piles of trash left by ATV-UTV-dirtbike-and-jacked-up-Jeep-riding/driving people “celebrating” spring in the vast wilderness of our American public lands.
On Easter, a plea for the respectful treatment of our lands, our wildlife … each other.
Ty and Chipeta graze peacefully in the warm sunshine under ever-watchful Temple Butte on the loveliest of days in Spring Creek Basin. 🙂
Hollywood watches his band during a pause in his grazing, while Temple Butte glows from late light in the background. It’s a beautiful world out there.
Really? He couldn’t have run along the top of that little rise in the foreground with his mane blowing in the wind and iconic Temple Butte in the background?
But this image (and memory) makes me laugh, so maybe I like it even better. 🙂
Skywalker spit a bit of something that he was grazing, and it blew with the wind (do you see it?).
It was crazy windy. It was beautiful. 🙂
Maia was in the shade of a coming rain-wave while Temple Butte glowed in sunlight from a minute break in the clouds.
For just about every photo I take of the horses, in Spring Creek Basin, my impulse for a blog post is to type “handsome,” “gorgeous,” “beautiful,” “phenomenal,” “stunning” …
And who would blame me?
🙂
Kwana is all of those and more. So very much, wonderfully more. They all are!
Did I mention that we got rain? Upper Disappointment Valley got some white stuff. 🙂 That’s McKenna Peak in the foreground.
Iconic and locally relevant and important-to-us Temple Butte.
Brumley Point.
A different perspective showing Brumley Point in the foreground and Temple Butte in the background. Brumley Point is mostly within Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area. Temple Butte is just outside the basin’s boundary.
Temple Butte and Brumley Point, along with McKenna Peak, are in McKenna Peak Wilderness Study Area, which overlaps the eastern, southeastern and southern portions of Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area.
All three features are prominent from just about anywhere in Spring Creek Basin. The elder Mr. Brumley was a prominent member of the local community, and was a rancher and timber man; Pati and David Temple were and are prominently involved with advocating for Spring Creek Basin’s mustangs. I haven’t been able to learn anything about McKenna, but with a peak and a wilderness study area named after him, he (?) must also have made significant contributions to the region.
After the unseasonably warm, dry weather we’ve been having, it seems wild to see snow on the ridges, but the ground and vegetation needs it badly, and we’re immensely glad for the snow and the rain!
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 