Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Spirit places each hoof carefully on the slippery shale while walking down a fin of a ridge on the west side of Round Top. What they were doing up there – and they were up there! – only they know.

The view is fabulous, but the grazing is sparse!

… and shake off all the flies.

Lift your right leg up … and shake off all the flies.

Or maybe Comanche has invented a new rain dance! 🙂

The inimitable Houdini climbs a hill after drinking with her band at the newest water catchment above Disappointment Road. That catchment is a few years old now, and during these exceptionally dry times, we’re as grateful for it as ever.

In the background are cottonwoods along (dry) Disappointment Creek (outside Spring Creek Basin).

Hurricanes and flooding; wildfires and destruction; drought and no rain in sight. And those are just the simplest to name. My heart aches for all those suffering.

Killian is about to enter the shade from nearby Round Top. He’s so handsome, he carries his light with him.

Terra and Piedra went on the alert when a vehicle approached their band’s nap zone. We weren’t too far from the road (my back is to it as I sat on the ground facing them).

The driver passed slowly; I waved; the horses moved a little farther away.

We returned to napping and lounging. 🙂