Escape artist – and congrats!

9 09 2017

Houdini

Would you believe this gorgeous wild gal is in her 30s? I’m pretty sure she is.

She seems to have tapped into the precious magic of the basin.

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Happy THIRTIETH anniversary to beloved mustang volunteers Pat and Frank Amthor. Their advocacy started in Spring Creek Basin some 20 years ago when they helped organize and lead the annual wild horse count with Four Corners Back Country Horsemen.

They’re in the basin this weekend with friends to celebrate with the mustangs for whom they’ve worked long and hard. 🙂

God surely smiled when he united us with these mustang angels!





Spotlight on

8 09 2017

Puzzle

That pretty pinto Puzzle-ita face. 🙂

It can’t help but make you smile!





Persevere

7 09 2017

Piedra and Aurora

Beauty will triumph.

Or we’re all lost.





Full, beautiful view

6 09 2017

Hollywood

Silly Hollywood. You can’t hide behind half a juniper tree. 🙂





Green and grey and brown

5 09 2017

Storm

Browns are creeping back into our landscape as the sun blazes and the clouds – the ones swollen with rain – seem to have abandoned us. But it’s fall, and crispness – and maybe some rain – will be in our forecast (eventually).





Always in style

4 09 2017

Raven

A black mustang is always gorgeous and always in style. 🙂 Raven is one of the gorgeousest!





Seeing red

3 09 2017

Gaia

The very best, most beautiful kind of red is Gaia at the golden end of the lovely day.





Dazzled

2 09 2017

Kwana, McKenna Peak and Temple Butte

Young Kwana follows his band across the golden range at the end of another glorious day in Spring Creek Basin.





Poised prongs

1 09 2017

Two pronghorns below McKenna Peak and Temple Butte in Spring Creek Basin.

Cool, right?

Pronghorns are fairly common in Spring Creek Basin and lower Disappointment Valley. But some people are surprised to learn that.

Just another feather in our healthy-range cap.





Dear politicians …

31 08 2017

Killian, La Sal Mountains

Seriously, it’s time to put an end to the myth that all wild horses are starving on all public rangelands that they (and they alone) have destroyed.

Love,

Spring Creek Basin mustangs

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Link to links about how to help people and animals suffering from the after-effects of Hurricane Harvey in Texas.

My folks have lived in Texas since 1992 (after an earlier tour of duty there in the early 1980s). Fortunately, they were on the northwestern edge of the swirl and are grateful for rain received after extremely hot and dry conditions. Our hearts are with all those affected by the devastation.