I love finding some of our pinto girls in the snow! Spirit and Puzzle have been wandering unseen for a little while, so I was ecstatic to find them, especially with McKenna Peak right behind them!
Spotty snow and special spots
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
The still of winter
2 02 2020
During these days of the freeze-thaw-mud cycle, trips to the basin are morning trips now. If you don’t get out early, you won’t get in the basin at all. Or, as someone found out almost the hard way the afternoon of the day I took the above pic of Mariah, you won’t get very far in, and you’ll be lucky to leave only ruts and not get stuck in the mud.
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Blue eyes under the blue sky
1 02 2020
If anything goes better with a blue sky than a handsome blue-eyed mustang, I don’t know what it is. 🙂
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He’s bold, he’s red
31 01 2020
He’s Master Hayden.
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And in case you missed it, here’s the link to my previous blog post about “Revising our HMAP.”
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Secret snow
30 01 2020
In the secret, almost hidden, winter-white, winter-quiet forest, Piedra wonders how the heck I found her.
It’s a secret, sweet girl. It’s totally top secret. … And P.S., you all showed yourselves on the other side of the ridge just as I happened to look. 🙂
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A most puzzly puzzle
29 01 2020
Do you see what I see?
There ARE three mustangs in this pic, and don’t feel bad if you can’t spot them. I passed them once and saw them only after I spotted the horses on the ridge where I am taking this photo, and turned around to get back to where I could most easily hike up to them.
Round Top is in the distance, and the treed ridges in the farthest background are beyond Spring Creek Basin.
Hint: There’s one grey and two dark horses, just this side of where you can tell the road is going to cross that arroyo in the sort of middle distance.
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The days we live to love
28 01 2020
Look at Tenaz, lookin’ all handsome-like in the melty fresh snow, with the clouds clearing over the La Sal Mountains on the far horizon.
The clouds released rain on us first, in the dark of early morning. That turned to snow, even as the temperatures crept above freezing. And even as the snow fell, it melted and dripped from roofs and vehicles and filled old hoofprints in the lanes.
The basin got at least a couple of inches of fresh stuff – already very much melting by the time I spotted Tenaz’s band and he posed for me so handsomely. In the photo above, you can see the tease of sunshine on lower Disappointment Valley.
Want a better view of that faraway?
Heaven, you say? Yes, just a little part of it. 🙂
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The grey and the brown
27 01 2020
Houdini is less than worried while Maia calls to a band mate across a small arroyo. Another band was in the area, and Maia apparently didn’t think her family should be too spread out.
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Blooms ‘n bellies
26 01 2020
What is it with those snakeweed bouquets? 🙂
We do still have a bit of snow in patches. More is in the forecast tonight and tomorrow, but with temps in the 40s, it probably won’t last long. Still, it’s more moisture, and we need all the winter wet we can get!
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The prettiest look
25 01 2020
“You can’t see me if I hide under this juniper tree!”
Dear, sweet girl. Yes, yes, we can. 🙂
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