Mustangs and light and Spring Creek Basin in Disappointment Valley … all the way to Utah.
Perfection!
From their birth-range of Sand Wash Basin, within sight of Wyoming, to Spring Creek Basin, within sight of Utah, Dundee, Rowan and Aiyanna have come a long way … and continue to live wild and free. 🙂
Renewal of seasons, affirmation of wild.
Happy Easter. 🙂
Again. 🙂
Skywalker doesn’t like to expend too much energy. And who needs to on a warm(ish) spring day when the wind is NOT howling?
More pronghorns have visible recently. I love to see these fleet-footed “speed goats.”
Not many of the mustangs were visible yesterday, but I thought the snow deserved more than one pic before it melted and gave way to dry, brown slopes once again. Green is coming up, but slowly. 🙂
From Chrome’s Point looking northeast-ish across Spring Creek Basin – fresh snow and fresh tracks.
Looking up the Spring Creek arroyo to its source: McKenna Peak.
Hazy in the snow fog, McKenna Peak, submarine ridge and Brumley Point in the distance. And rich, wet, wonderful snow. Moisture much needed.
We interrupt your regularly scheduled brown-landscape post with this view of our black-and-white girl in a very white landscape!
We had hoped for rain – and I admit, I wasn’t very certain of any moisture at all – and we got this!
At the time I was photographing Raven and her band, the wind was blowing the snow sideways, and she and her bandmates were taking shelter in a small copse of pinon and juniper trees, butts to the wind-driven flurries (can’t we get away from that wind? even while it’s snowing?!).
A handsome blue-eyed mister never goes amiss, particularly not on a grey day.
Can it get any windier? (Don’t answer that.)
At least we have beautiful mustangs to get us through.
The display of photos featuring Spring Creek Basin’s mustangs at the Dolores Public Library in Dolores, Colorado, looks fabulous! The big canvas-wrapped images are on loan from BLM’s Tres Rios Field Office (which is located just above the town of Dolores); they were part of last year’s special exhibit at Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act. I’m so pleased that the library will display them through the month of April!
Special thanks to Emily Mason, director of adult programming for the library, who secured the loan of the photos and did such a wonderful job with hanging them and with designing the fliers to announce their exhibit at the library; Tracy Murphy with Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum, who facilitated the packaging and delivery; and Connie Clementson, manager of Tres Rios Field Office, who agreed to this special partnership!
**Update**
The 11×14-inch prints on the right are the images in the silent auction to benefit the library.
Sticking with the theme of spring wind … it’s still windy out there! Spring is just barely springing, so wind is “hair” to stay!
It does make for some cute hair-dos. 🙂
Sometimes, the howling spring winds just take it outta ya … “it” being whatever you need it to be: motivation, gumption, oomph. We’re ready for some gentle, calm, “female” rain to sweeten that dry, dusty wind.
