The ravens, always around, are everywhere now, lots of times, in pairs.
Our Raven, with her sleek, glossy plummage, is well named.
The big UFO-shaped hill in the background is called Round Top, though I like a friend’s name for it better: Saucer Hill. 😉 From the top of it, you can see much of Spring Creek Basin. From this vantage, in the basin’s north hills, you can see it AND much of the basin!
No pins or bling needed beyond what Mother Nature has provided by the light of our planet’s brightest star and the magic of the atmosphere that provides our breath of life.
Our autumn light is divine … and our skies are full blue without a hint of the rain we need badly. Nights are getting chilly, and days are close to perfect, temperature-wise.
Kwana follows his band into the trees after they had grazed in the open for a couple of hours.
In the sunshine, it was warm enough for a T-shirt. As the sun sank lower, I was glad I had a fleece jacket!
Two golden girls, enjoying a golden evening in a golden place on our big blue ball. 🙂
It’s hard to acknowledge hate when surrounded by love in and for the natural world.
The planet – our home – is worth fighting for.
Fight for love. Fight WITH love. Everything you do with that in your heart, it’s worth something.
Golden girl Chipeta in the golden light of an autumn evening.
Of course, we have our own handsome beefcakes right here in Spring Creek Basin. 🙂
Killian is one of our very handsomest young stallions. (Yes, OK, I say that about all of them, young or otherwise!)
This was the second of the three bands I saw in Piceance-East Douglas. They were quite a bit more wary than the first band, so I didn’t get to spend much time with them.
Notice the haze in the background; a prescribed burn was going on nearby. It was not close enough to be a danger to the herd, and the area received rain the night before, which served to cool temperatures for the first time in a long time.
It was a beautiful day on the range. Although I didn’t see many horses (the third band was far away across a road, arroyo and sagebrush-and-rabbitbrush sea), this is such a beautiful area that the looking made it all worthwhile. 🙂 And the horses just happen to be as gorgeous as any mustangs I’ve ever seen!
(The yellow-flowering vegetation behind the horses is rabbitbrush, also called chamisa. The rabbitbrush in Piceance was ahead of ours here in Disappointment Valley.)
Healthy, shiny, bay beautiful wild ponies. 🙂
This handsome guy is – in fact – Guy, band stallion in Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area near Meeker. My friend Pam Nickoles gave me the ID after confirming with her friend Dona Hilkey.
Isn’t he a beefcake? I couldn’t get over how stout and SHINY these horses all were.
The horses pictured are just part of his band; he had another mare and foal pair, and another single mare. Gorgeous family!
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 