Chipeta does me the courtesy of stopping to give me a pose before wandering off across an arroyo with her band. 🙂
Hello, beauty
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Thankful
28 11 2019
I am so grateful.
I am so blessed.
I am so humbled.
I am in awe.
I am profoundly in love.
I am so thankful.
For these mustangs, for this life, for these blessings, for my friends, for my family above all. All that surrounds me brings me such incredible joy, year-round, and I strive to make sure that gratitude is my first emotion in everything I experience.
Thank you for following the mustangs of Spring Creek Basin, for caring about them, for enjoying the peace and beauty they bring to your own beautiful places in the world.
Happy Thanksgiving, from our herd to yours. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Lingering
27 11 2019
Sundance the fuzzy enjoys a warmish day in the damp basin.
In the distance is one of Hollywood’s lovelies.
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Rounder
26 11 2019
Could pretty Piedra be any more apple-like? 🙂
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Fuzziest fuzzle
25 11 2019
Puzzle. So beautiful.
She waited moments for her band, then they disappeared over the ridge.
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Oh, lovely
24 11 2019
That light!
That gold!
That Winona!
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Shapes ‘n shadows
23 11 2019
The land here is not flat. 🙂 Shadows tell the tale.
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Look, the look
22 11 2019
Light and shadow, gold and stripes.
It must be Hollywood. 🙂
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Besty girls
21 11 2019
These girls ARE in a band – that includes a couple of boys – and they don’t play musical instruments, but they seem to enjoy singing … even bad singing. 🙂
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East pocket paradise
20 11 2019
Do you see what I see? Besides the road leading to beautiful country *beyond* the road?
Remember, look for white spots. In our country, they could be rocks or old juniper trees silvery in the light or salt coming to the surface … or grey mustangs, posing as mountain goats in the desert. (That’s a hint: Look fairly high.)
How ’bout now? 🙂 About seven horses are visible, though at best, from this distance, they don’t look much like equines!
I got so giddy, seeing the horses on that high ridge, that apparently all I could blurt out was “mountain goats! mountain goats!” And my friend Karen Keene Day thought I really was talking about mountain goats! No, no, just wild ponies pretending to be sure-footed wooly wonders (well, they ARE all that!), high on a ridge on the farthest east boundary of Spring Creek Basin. 🙂
They’re also deep within McKenna Peak Wilderness Study Area (which covers a good chunk of the whole eastern side of the basin). The road you see in the first photo is almost to the farthest eastern edge before it turns south. Beyond, only foot – or hoof! – traffic is allowed.
In other good news: The ground is damp as I type this post Tuesday night! More rain is coming! More is welcome! More is NEEDED!
Please, please, moisten our ground and fill our hearts and hopes for a good start to winter wonderfulness!
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Categories : McKenna Peak Wilderness Study Area, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
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