Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

It’s a tough decision for a young bachelor: Go visiting with a nearby band stallion … or rush back to protect your band from another bachelor. (Maiku has a long-time attachment to a band that has a band stallion.)

His attachment won out, and peace reigned.

On a cloudy day, Puzzle rocks the basin – as always. 🙂

I so love her *look*!

Snow still covers the far, high country, and water still is flowing here in the low, warm country.

Hayden thinks it all looks good. 🙂

Shadow likes to maintain her disinterested distance.

(Photo taken through the legs of a grazing band mate.)

Where, oh, where have you been, Storm the Wild and Handsome?

I did ask; he did not respond. 🙂 I think I can translate his implied answer: “Around.”

Well said, sir.

Continuing with the spotted theme, here are pretty pinto pony girls Spirit and Puzzle, looking like they’re about to start shedding annnnnnnyyyyyyyy minute now. 🙂

We’re still having spring-in-Colorado crazy weather with sunshine and clouds, and wind and cold and verging-on-sunburns – and blowing snow now and then for a hot (cold?!) minute.

There might be a tinge of green starting to show ever so slightly out there. The rest of the world looks green. We’re gettin’ there!

Maiku might have the best “do” in the basin. He rocks it. 🙂

Handsome Hayden is an old hand in front of the camera, and because he’s so nonchalant about the procedure, he’s notoriously hard to photograph.

I say that with great fondness, by the way. 🙂

So I was thrilled when I caught him looking back at me recently. See above.

Then he decided to show me how thrilled he was that *I* was thrilled. Heh.

Yeah, pal, I kept clicking.

“Don’t put that on the blog,” he says.

Too late, says I.

The folks at home love you. 🙂