
Corazon shows off his big namesake heart. 🙂

That’s not a trick of the light, and unless you’re completely distracted by the lovely Gaia, you see the snow on McKenna Peak and the snow on the ground at her hooves.
That’s right, folks: For the first time in more than a very long month and a half, we got snow. Moisture, in any form, is extremely much super very totally needed this winter, and although it wasn’t a whole heckuva lot, it was *something* … and we need a whole lotta wet somethings. News broke this week that “the megadrought gripping the American West is so severe that it’s become the driest two decades in the region in at least 1,200 years – and drought conditions will likely persist for years.”
Yikes. (And a bunch of other swear words.)
The snow dampened the excruciatingly long dust trails raised by vehicles on local roads, but by mid-afternoon, those local roads were dry or nearly so. In potentially other good news, next week brings some more chances for snow. Please keep your fingers crossed for us, and dance a dance or two. 🙂

The tawny color of the landscape is getting increasingly bleak, but although Kestrel’s tawny coat is similar, it’s … well, better. 🙂

Sundance and one of his new mares drink at a pond with the day’s last light glowing on them. Look closely, and you can see his mane draped over her neck as she’s drinking from the same hole in the ice at the edge of the pond. 🙂

Pretty little Spirit mirrors Temple Butte.
But wait. … Who’s that in the background?

She’s not one to steal the spotlight, our Houdini. … Fortunately for us, she can’t *escape* the spotlight every now and then. 🙂

Buckeye and Dundee wait for Rowan and Aiyanna to mosey down the trail that will take them to a pond for their evening drink under a moody sky. … Moody but not moisture-bearing.

Grey, grey and brown. Fortunately, the greys help take our minds off the browns!
Pretty days now, though, are gonna make for some hard days to come this summer. …

Sundance and his lovelies gather at the neighborhood watering hole with the folks from down the way.