Reya and her band haven’t been seen for a while, since around Thanksgiving, I think. I didn’t stop to photograph them then, so I was twice happy when I spotted them the other day during a long hike. She looks fabulous in her furry, fringed winter coat!
Fabulous!
Miss Chipeta with the long view to Utah – a little clouded but still grand. 🙂
At least 2 inches of snow greeted sunrise yesterday morning (such as it was, with snow blowing sideways nearly all day). By the end of the day, all that white had melted again, leaving us saturated with mud – again – and reveling in the awesome moisture.
Do you wonder why I love those bays like Cassidy Rain?!
First thing in the morning, Utah’s La Sal Mountains shine with an almost otherworldly glow.
Flash seems to shine just about always. 🙂
Do you see what I see?
This big group of elk was on the southeast shoulder of Filly Peak in the western part of Spring Creek Basin.
Winter is the season of elk in Disappointment Valley, where we have less snow and the livin’ is easy (or relatively so). 🙂
Hollywood’s band was recently in the most magnificent area to take advantage of this stunning background – made even more stunning by the divine blanket of pristine snow. Hollywood was warning elder Aspen that his proximity to the band was perhaps a little closer than fully appropriate, while a young bachelor napped at a very respectful distance.
Beautiful Terra seems to glow more brightly than the snow. Lit from within, if I had to guess why. 🙂
This image shows snow from the last big snowstorm. Oddly, though the rest of Southwest Colorado (well, all of western Colorado, apparently?) seems to be getting fairly hammered by snow, Disappointment Valley seems to be a bit sheltered from the storm – literally. It *has* snowed … but it seems to be coming from Utah and blowing on to Kansas! The wind has been strong and sharp, and it hasn’t allowed much snow to *fall* let alone settle.
We had a lot of melting of all that snow Corazon is standing in – with temps in the balmy-seeming 50s. Actual creeks (Spring and Disappointment) ran with melting snow-water and the melting made tiny (to not-so-tiny) creeks where arroyos or any other low channels existed.
The landscape IS white again, but maybe only an inch or so has actually settled out of the wind-blown flurries.
There goes Aspen again, posing against a dramatic background. 🙂
He’s back with the band he was with when I took and posted that previous pic of him. He separated from them for a little while and hung out with some young guys, then turned up back with the band. Maybe he likes their company!
Skywalker and his pal, Sancho, follow the band over the edge of a little ridge.
That’s quite a background, eh? 🙂 Just look at all that snow! Water in the bank for our dry summer days.
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 