Dundee, Rowan and Aiyanna, our Sand Wash Basin beauties, are very much at home in Spring Creek Basin. They’re still with their stallion, Buckeye, who is a laidback kinda guy.
Sunset saunter
29 01 2022Comments : 7 Comments »
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No ‘shade’ on this girl
28 01 2022
Doesn’t she have the sweetest face and prettiest eyes? So engaged and curious.
While she and her bandsisters were in the shade of the hill that falls northward from the rimrocks, Temple Butte and McKenna Peak and Spring Creek Basin’s eastern ridges were still lit by the setting sun.
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Winter shine
27 01 2022
Just a coupla beautiful mustang girls, napping in the winter sunlight. 🙂 Piedra and Kestrel have been friends since Piedra was young and Kestrel even younger (a baby!). They haven’t always been in the same band, but they have been for the last several years.
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Winter glow
26 01 2022
Glowy, glowy pretty girls Mariah and Winona in their winter finery. Well, not much else need be said!
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Little guy, big heart
25 01 2022
This is a short throwback on the calendar – 10 days or so. McKenna Peak doesn’t have nearly that much snow on it anymore. We’re closing in on a January with only one day of snow – the first day of the month/year – and nothing since then.
But does Corazon worry about it? Nope. He’s probably glad to not slog through the hoof-sucking mud. 🙂
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What lies beneath
24 01 2022
This pond is quite a bit bigger than this limited view from the camera shows. Most of it is covered in ice right now, and the horses are drinking from the very edge, which thaws a bit during the day. They help it along by pawing at it to get to the liquid beneath the ice.
It’s one of the most scenic ponds in the basin. 🙂
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Always the focus
23 01 2022
Raven likes to hide behind other ponies. But there’s no hiding that clever sparkle in her eye!
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Wishing for a white winter
22 01 2022
Well, we got nary a single, solitary flurry, which was a really terrible disappointment. Piedra and the mustangs, living in the mild moments, probably aren’t too upset, but I’m already worried about our summer water.
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Sauntering blue
21 01 2022
Mr. Blue Eyes always looks so nonchalantly handsome.
Don’t blame him.
He just can’t help it. 🙂
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The dark and the light
20 01 2022
Maia and Shane look winter-lovely as they make their way to a pond with their family.
It’s so good to have ponds – mostly iced over and thawing during the day at the edges where the horses drink – this winter, as it means we’ll have water in at least the spring. But that brown ground, almost as far as the eye can see (we get no benefit from La Sal Mountain runoff), does not bode well.
A small chance of afternoon snow tomorrow has entered our forecast, and we’re crossing fingers, toes and paws!
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Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 