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.
Taking a pause
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And away they go
12 04 2017
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. 🙂
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Spittin’ with the wind
9 04 2017
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. 🙂
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Grey and sunlit blue
4 04 2017
Maia was in the shade of a coming rain-wave while Temple Butte glowed in sunlight from a minute break in the clouds.
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Flirt
3 04 2017
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!
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Snow scenes
25 03 2017
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!
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Categories : Brumley Point, Disappointment Valley, McKenna Peak, McKenna Peak Wilderness Study Area, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte
Model good looks
23 03 2017
Do you love that face? What’s not to love?!
Temple Butte, of course, is always gorgeous when it plays backdrop to one of our stunning mustangs … in this case, Storm.
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Middle of the day
22 03 2017
Can’t go wrong with mustangs, water and that amazing skyline in Spring Creek Basin. 🙂
McKenna Peak is the sunlit pyramid at left, and Temple Butte is in the shade at right. Spirit and Puzzle are the spotted girls in the foreground.
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Not so green
17 03 2017
Happy St. Patrick’s Day from a not-so-green corner of the world!
Bits of green are appearing, but you have to look close and hard to see them.
Comanche isn’t too worried. Mother Nature provides for her creatures. (Only humans worry about it?!)
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Mules helping mustangs, part 2
14 03 2017
And who wouldn’t smile, to be on a good horse, packing good mules in Spring Creek Basin, Southwest Colorado, on a gorgeous spring day?!
Katy Bartzokis (above) and Glenn Ryan and their horses and mules were back to haul more fencing supplies into the basin for future work, and we had more help in the form of Mike Schmidt and Keith Fox, who came to help Kathe Hayes and Kat Wilder.
So many photo opportunities … so little time to actually peruse the images and select ones for publication! And we welcome Glenn and Katy, Sly and Karmel, and Joey, Karla, Lena, Roz and Skid back tomorrow for another few trips into the wilderness (McKenna Peak Wilderness Study Area, that is). (So someone has to get to bed!)
Locals: Glenn (and Katy?) will be at the Ag Expo at the Montezuma County Fairgrounds this weekend with the mules and horses that made this project happen. If you go, please stop by and heap thanks upon them for helping our beloved Spring Creek Basin mustangs. Their work will enable us to rebuild fence sections without having to carry in hundreds of pounds (1,000 or more? we should add it all up!) of materials. Just one wooden post for an H-brace weighs 50-some pounds.
Many, many thanks!!
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Categories : Advocacy, alternative spring break, Disappointment Valley, Education, Fence work, McKenna Peak, McKenna Peak Wilderness Study Area, Partnership, San Juan Mountains Association, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte, Work projects
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