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.
Green has a way of softening any landscape, does it not? We have been so blessed to have gotten enough rain to make our grasses grow, to fill our ponds and to keep our wild and beautiful horses happy and healthy. Corazon seems to have nothing to complain about! (The humans surely don’t!)
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In other news, a mowing mishap took out the cable between my satellite Internet dish and my house, rendering me completely (and hopefully temporarily (!?)) without Internet. I had scheduled several blog posts for the time when my family was visiting (we had a great visit!), but all good things must come to a – hopefully temporary! – end (?!).
Thank you all for the comments this past week; I appreciate each comment and all of you, the lovers of Spring Creek Basin’s mustangs, who leave them!
In rain news, we got an astonishing INCH AND 16-HUNDREDTHS over a couple of days, a couple of days ago! I couldn’t record that to CoCoRaHS, let alone announce it here, until now. … We are still in celebration mode. 🙂
Thanks to “patron” wi fi at the Lone Cone Library in Norwood, Colorado, I’ve been able to check email and schedule blog posts, and hopefully (isn’t life built on hope?) Internet will return to normal very soon.
It’s a lot greener now, on Sept. 1, than it was on Maia’s May 1 birthday. We’re very glad for the here and now. 🙂
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