Sometimes I think Killian is getting darker instead of lighter. 🙂
Hopefully the future will get brighter for wild horses and burros. Last year seemed pretty dark around every turn. There were good moments, but the looming specter of destruction for close to 100,000 of our beloved wild equines kept the fight strong. It’s our honor to keep fighting for them and their wild way of life.
May the hope of peace and goodwill surround and protect our wild lands and wild lives in 2018.
Isn’t this little guy/gal gorgeous?!
It’s a “common gray fox,” and my Field Guide to the Rocky Mountains says they eat rabbits, rodents, birds, grasshoppers, fruit and berries. They “often climb trees, unlike fox and coyote”! They’re found on the “lower slopes of mountains, wooded canyons and scrubby plains” in “southeastern Wyoming (rare), western, central and southeastern Colorado.” The book also says they’re “mainly nocturnal, year-round.”
Fortunately for my camera and me, this one didn’t get the nocturnal memo. 🙂
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Happy New Year’s Eve!
America’s *NEXT* top model. 🙂
No “next” about it. Sundance has it all.
Just another gorgeous, warm, dry winter day in Spring Creek Basin.
Fifty-three degrees in late-December Colorado is not normal. Fortunately, the horses live in the moment, and 53 degrees on a late-December Colorado day just feels nice.
At 49 degrees under Colorado sunshine, ice and snow melt quickly.
We’d take another dose of white stuff if anyone has any to spare. 🙂
… the snow is very nearly almost completely totally mostly gone.
Storm is one of our whitest bits of white in the basin during this brown winter. And one of the handsomest, too. 🙂
… and to all, peace on this wild Earth.
Sometimes, they seem to pause and enjoy the view. 🙂
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Merry Christmas Eve!
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 