Full to the brim

22 08 2022

Have I mentioned the recent GREEN in Spring Creek Basin? Yes? Oh, good. … ‘Cuz it’s there. 🙂

Along with a little of this:

Two perspectives of Spring Creek, flowing with rainwater, the day before yesterday. The first image is directly as the road crosses the creekbed/arroyo; the second is just to the right – water flowing toward us. Interestingly, the road was dry to this point, but clearly it had rained in the northern and eastern (at least) regions of Spring Creek Basin. By this point, the major arroyos of the basin have converged (though there are still some that feed the creek’s westward drainage). The water was neither high (deep) nor terribly fast, but I didn’t cross. There are times to respect Mother Nature’s obstacles, and I deemed this to be one of those times.

Also a good bit of this:

This is the pond near the hill we call Flat Top. It’s rare to see it so full of water that it backs up so far to the right.

And this is the east-pocket pond, way back in the far eastern region of Spring Creek Basin, also full to the gills.

The pond pix were taken the day before those of Spring Creek running, which was the day after I got soaked going into the basin and getting caught in a lovely little drenching that did NOT go ’round. 😉

All the ponds are so excellently full; the above two are just examples.

So grateful. So very, very grateful.





A little wet, just fine

21 08 2022

Even sopping wet and splashed with mud from a dip in the pond, Sundance is one handsome critter. 🙂

Here, he’s looking back at the previous band to use the band before he and his girls arrived. Gotta make sure they were, in fact, vacating the premises. (They were, and then Sundance’s band followed them out to graze.)





A little bit of perfection

20 08 2022

Bands taking advantage of good grass and good, clean water at Spring Creek Basin’s main/original water catchment (tank at far left, trough just a bit to the right of it).

This is looking basically northwest … rain falling over Utah’s La Sal Mountains and monsoon clouds shading part of lower Disappointment Valley. There’s a hint of green in them thar hills … and for that, we are grateful beyond words.





Gettin’ her greens

19 08 2022

Chipeta keeps an eye on me, looking at her, grazing in the green – mostly greasewood, yes, but a whole lotta fresh, growing grass, too.





Green with that grey

18 08 2022

Now granted, a lot of what you’re seeing is greasewood and other salt-desert shrubs, but I *promise* there is excellent grass in there as well, mostly alkali sacatone and/or sand dropseed (it looks very similar).

Yummmmmmmmmmmmm-MEEE!





Almost never

17 08 2022

Flat Top, Round Top, submarine ridge, McKenna Peak and Temple Butte are all visible … under rain. 🙂

Sweet, blessed rain.

(As for the title of this post … we *almost never* get rolling clouds like that. … Thank goodness we *sometimes* get clouds like that. :))





Happy anniversary, Mom & Dad!

16 08 2022

The couple that gets muddy together – working hard together! – stays together? 🙂

Especially when rainbows form overhead. 🙂

Happy anniversary, Mom and Dad – 53 years! Amazing! 🙂 So wonderful to spend time with ya’ll recently (even with a few mustang sightings) in wild Wyoming!

(If you have them to spare, a few prayers for cooler weather and RAIN won’t go amiss with anniversary wishes for my folks in Central Texas. It is HOT there and terribly dry, and they sure could use some relief.)





The very golden air

15 08 2022

Dust in the air, tinged by low, almost-sunset light … ahhh.

And just in case eyes are getting gritty, noses are starting to run …

This might be why. 🙂 There’s a whole lotta *lot* in that air out there.





Birds of a feather

14 08 2022

Handsome horseness brought to you by a few flying feathered friends. 🙂 I think they were his escort as he prepared to greet a neighbor stallion.





Mr. Magnificent

13 08 2022

Ahhhhh.

What a hunk. 🙂