In the illustration above, you can see heavy rain directly smack dab right on top of Spring Creek Basin. The long yellow-red blob in the middle of the screen covers the far eastern part of the basin (and more). 🙂
This is the first honest-to-goodness RAIN in 53 days.
It was pretty awesome. 🙂 It’s a huge relief.
Sassy girls Aurora, Terra and Piedra enjoy a breeze that (mostly) kept the gnats away.
What’s Comanche so happy about?
Spring Creek Basin got sprinkles. 🙂
(That “hazy” grey background is sprinkly stuff. Not exactly “rain” … but gettin’ there.)
And the weatherman says we might be on track to finally get our monsoons. The rain can’t come soon enough. Lots and lots of fires are burning throughout the West. The one nearest to Disappointment Valley may have gotten dampened by some rain on Saturday.
Prayers are with all who are evacuated from their homes and/or closely watching fires in or near their communities.
Yes, big boy, all eyes really ARE on you!
Handsome Storm gives me the eyeball after he checked out – and added to – a nearby stud pile.
Ty seems to be craning to see who’s pointing a big black box and white tube at him. He cracks me up. 🙂 (There was nothing between us to block his view.)
Spring Creek Basin’s cover girls: Alegre and Houdini.
Alegre might have gotten a little dusty between model takes, but gosh. Gorgeous!
For God so loved the world …
How can you not believe in a higher power with so much gorgeousity in the world?
(The image of the moon was taken a few evenings ago. All others were taken last night at the very end of the beautiful day (which included very heavy smoke from the East Rim Fire throughout Disappointment Valley during the afternoon).)
Chipeta the bold, the wise, the alpha, the matriarch of her family. Every inch, a queen. 🙂
On the anniversary of America’s independence and declaration of freedom, our wild horses and burros are under attack as never before.
It’s hard to even fathom that the widescale slaughter of tens of thousands of these beautiful wild animals could happen in America, but please make your voices heard – and tell your legislators that YOU don’t agree. Our wild ones are counting on us.
Yes, those are stormy clouds in the background, beyond Brumley Point and Sundance.
Lightning strikes caused at least two fires well south of the basin (called in) … and a few drops of rain fell across a seemingly isolated band of area in lower Disappointment Valley but, as far as I could tell, none in Spring Creek Basin. But maybe we’re getting closer to more widespread drops (though not according to the forecast).
If you’re camping and/or celebrating our nation’s Independence Day, please be careful.
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 