There are places where the horses drink where they also can roll and get muddy, but I like to hope that Cassidy Rain’s “adobe coat” (thank you, Sue!) is from anywhere in the whole wide basin that got rain on Friday. The damp ground didn’t last long, but it was a relief, nonetheless.
(Thanks to Luke Bryan for the title of today’s post: “Rain IS a good thing“!)
I waited out the rain before going out to see the ponies. The ground was still damp (it soaked into the parched ground very fast, and the ground was still very dry beneath the very shallow damp earth), and there was a bit of rain in the far reaches to the southeast and back to the west-ish. That’s not Temple Butte beyond Temple in the rain, but it looks similar/familiar in the haze of the rain (which is SOOOOO much better than the haze of dust and smoke!).
These pix are from sunset Friday:
Virga and rain (see it at lower center-ish against the far ridge?) from Spring Creek Basin looking west/southwest toward the far southwestern ridge(s) of Disappointment Valley.
Saturday:
It rained. 🙂 ACTUALLY rained. And for at least an hour (in at least some places).
OMG, the relief. … The gratitude.
It started with thunder and lightning, though, so hopefully the nearly immediate rain put out any fire(s) that may have started. …
Rowan was already in the shade of the south side of the canyon and the western rimrock boundary, so her beautiful palomino coat seems a bit washed out in this image with the vibrant and still sunlit canyon wall behind her. … But she still looks every bit as beautiful as she is!
Flash channels Gandalf in a brief little chat with another young (bachelor) stallion at sunset.
The message was received, and Flash didn’t even have to battle a balrog! (Apologies to non-LOTR people.)
They’re not exactly friends, but they’re not really enemies. They have a healthy respect for each other and definite boundaries, if not always exactly *defined*? Tenaz has the girls Skywalker wants, and for now, Tenaz has the upper hoof. 🙂
Another pic of Winona in her impersonation of a mountain goat – though I know it doesn’t exactly look like it.
See the edge a few steps ahead of her? That IS the edge, literally the west boundary of Spring Creek Basin, which is mostly (but not all) a rim of rocks – THE rimrocks, I call them. There’s no fence because … it’s the edge. It’s a straight drop down a rock wall before the shoulders of the ridge descend to the land below (in the background). Sort of straight left of her left foreleg, I think that’s a bend of the Spring Creek arroyo, and farther, basically under her chin and left of her chest, those are cottonwoods along (dry) Disappointment Creek. We’re way up high above Spring Creek canyon.
A gorgeous view, right at the edge, let alone beyond. 🙂
Pretty Mariah, napping in rare tree shade after a visit to the mud-bath spa!
This pic was taken a little while ago, but that’s what our sky looks like again – beautiful Colorado-blue. Thankful for no/little smoke, but how about some rain-bearing clouds? Or just sunshine-blocking, heat-relieving clouds? We don’t ask for much, hey? 🙂
The rimrock-topped Spring Creek canyon is always such a great background for handsome little Maiku.
Here, he gives me some attention, but most of his focus was on a young stallion with a nearby band.
Basic Buckeye, devoted, looking over his band.
I wish that sky would bring rain, but it hasn’t. … Not yet.
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 