Maiku watches another band approach in the greasewood flats between his ridge and Spring Creek.
The sight of the lush galleta grass waving at his knees makes ME weak in the knees!
The Spring Creek arroyo gathers rainwater running from all the little arroyos in Spring Creek Basin and sends it all flowing out of the basin through the spectacular canyon between the rimrock ledges in the basin’s western edge. … The very edge of our beautiful world, as far as the mustangs are concerned!
Mysterium and her mysterious, mystery fairy stylist(s) have undone her braids!
After the rain, the horses were greedily grazing on every bit of just-doused grass they could find. What an amazing time that must have been for them (let alone the human)! Then Cassidy Rain realized that Hayden had grazed his way across a road, and she decided that over THERE was better than over HERE, and away she went … glorious background the backdrop of the sound of her hooves in damp soil.
Dear Shadow. Mostly, her natural and wild wariness can’t tolerate my even semi-close presence.
But sometimes. … Sometimes, I think she just stops a little longer than usual to wonder “what the heck is that two-legged *doing* over there?”
And then. … Then I catch her natural and wild loveliness. 🙂 Just for a moment. Just in a photo. Just in my memory.
Come right out into the open, beautiful girl. There’s no hiding your coppery, glowing goodness!
When summer’s dry wind blows, often the best thing to do is enjoy the breeze – and that it’s blowing the buzzers elsewhere! Sweet Seneca knows the peace of that, sure enough.
Another couple of besties in the basin are Raven and Cassidy Rain. They’re usually pretty stoic girls, but every now and then, they like to spice things up. Cassidy Rain went with a sprig of greasewood. … I think it suits her!
Another one of Sundance, with his brilliant mane aglow against the dark wall of Spring Creek arroyo in the far eastern part of Spring Creek Basin. Really, it’s impossible to imagine “too much Sundance.”
Summer is starting its slow slide toward fall. Sunflowers are plentiful, adding bright snippets of color to our green basin. Of course, we think GREEN is a color to be celebrated, over the drab brown from before the monsoons came, but yellow is pretty nice, too!
Hayden and Maiku say their howdy-dos while Hayden’s band trots away in the background.
Pretty quickly after this, everyone then retreated to neutral territory, and grazing was resumed.
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 