See what I did there?
This is a pond in the eastern-ish part of Spring Creek Basin, and on this lovely winter day, there was some skim ice on the surface. The reflection of McKenna Peak and Temple Butte (see it, just barely, behind McKenna?) and submarine ridge was perfect on a day without breeze.
At the end of the year, of course, we like to *reflect* on the past year before we look ahead to the coming year.
We had no big projects (or any projects) for the mustangs in Spring Creek Basin this year. The new catchments were a huge relief to yours truly, especially as last winter wasn’t too snowy for us in mid-to-lower Disappointment Valley, and the rest of the year was pretty warm and fairly dry. We did start the year with good ponds, and though they all went dry as summer dragged on, later rain filled the ponds and kept the catchment troughs filling with water for the mustangs.
Our foals are growing and thriving; they’re the light of their mamas’ and daddy’s and aunties’ eyes – and this human’s, too.
We potentially have some projects coming up, and I’ll let ya’ll know about those as they come to fruition. Otherwise, it looks like another quiet year for the mustangs. As always, we’ll need snow and rain – as much as Mother Nature wants to pour out (and then some, but when asking, we don’t like to seem greedy!).
