Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Do you love that wild face?! Black-as-jet Raven still manages to shine with beauty. 🙂

Killian lagged behind his band because of another band nearby. Here, he’s taking a break from grazing to check on his band, downhill. The other band was uphill. I was on-hill, taking advantage of the gorgeous foreground … and awesome background.

Healthy, shiny, bay beautiful wild ponies. 🙂

Truly. 🙂

Kwana is unperturbed as he grazes.

You’d never know it, but there were two other bands – each with lieutenant stallions – very nearby.

In the high desert country, we don’t take water for granted.

This pond was dry until the recent couple of rains swept through.

Two nights ago, rain ran in curtains across the northern end of Disappointment Valley, including Spring Creek Basin.

After that rain, water ran in a flood in Spring Creek, in northeastern Disappointment Valley. 🙂

Above, Maiku tests the mud after drinking in a center stream where water still ran.

Despite the brief respite of a cloud blocking the sun when this photo was taken, sunshine, we have in abundance. What we need now are some showers.

Greenery abounds this year for Sundance and his wild cousins. To keep it so, we could use some rain. That’s a familiar refrain here in the high desert – the need for more rain.

Always. 🙂

Happy July!