Natural high

26 04 2020

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Mysterium naps just below a ridge just below McKenna Peak. It was my first time in that particular area of Spring Creek Basin … but it probably won’t be my last.





All one

25 04 2020

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In the magic of the light we all share, from the same radiant source, aren’t we all the same rich colors after all?





Light lines

24 04 2020

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I took this shot of one of our bachelors from another ridge like those pictured, far in the eastern part of Spring Creek Basin. He was watching over a band below him.





Showoff

23 04 2020

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Killian shows off his home on the range.

It looks inviting, doesn’t it? 🙂





Welcome green on a computer screen

22 04 2020

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Of course, there’s a bit of blue (snow) and red-and-yellow (heavy rain), too, but the moisture is what we’re concerned with, and it’s the moisture that lessens our considerable concern this early in the spring because of the *lack* of it for months and and months now.

Spring Creek Basin is mostly to the eastish and southeastish of the lowermost red-and-yellow blob. Some of it, yes, is not green-covered on the version of the weather map shown (KWTX Channel 10 is my parents’ news station in Central Texas, and it does feature an excellent radar map), but I’m confident that our our whole little region got a little bit of soothing drizzle for slightly more than a few minutes yesterday in the late afternoon.

FINALLY.

There’s nothing quite as uplifting in the high desert, in spring, than the sight of sprinkles drizzling from the heavens and the scent of that divine wetness-on-dry-desert-sage permeating the air.

UPDATE:

The above was typed around 4:30 or 5 p.m. Tuesday (yesterday).

The below, around 6:30ish p.m., kept happening:

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We’re kinda happy on this Earth Day. 🙂

Happy 50th anniversary to this official celebration of our Earth. We owe her everything.





On the go

21 04 2020

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While folks are staying home, Hayden demonstrates the beauty of moving forward.





Warmer, coming

20 04 2020

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Handsome Tenaz is shedding his winter coat for his spring sleekness. We definitely have more daylight to hasten that shedding, but that ol’ spring wind still has a bit of a chill to it. Warmer days aren’t far away.





Queen of her hill

19 04 2020

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We had some pretty great clouds, and Shadow didn’t often see her shadow because of them, but we’d sure like to see some moisture fall from those clouds.





Stud muffin

18 04 2020

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Maiku the marvelous shows off his excellentness. 🙂





Burly

17 04 2020

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Skywalker pauses under grey skies that carried wind … but no moisture.