
You’re not tired of Sundance photos, are you? 🙂 Isn’t he glorious?

You’re not tired of Sundance photos, are you? 🙂 Isn’t he glorious?

This is literally the second-to-last frame I took on a recent visit to Spring Creek Basin. The sun was going down, and although it killed me to leave as the light was so delicious, responsibilities called.
Mr. Hollywood made the most of a through-the-window shot. 🙂

Worst pic ever of an eagle. 🙂 But this one was soaring over Spring Creek Basin recently, and here, we revere these magnificent raptors.
This is a juvenile golden eagle (https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Golden_Eagle/id), and it was one of two reveling in the strong thermals the other day (while I was shivering against those same frigid winds!).
Love.
(Kwana means eagle in the Ute language (http://www.native-languages.org/utah-animals.htm). Possibly specifically bald … but I took it in general terms.)

Happy birthday to my little brother, Jeff! 🙂

Battling stallions?! That phrase always makes me laugh when photographers tout that as part of their photo tours of wild horses. Sure, it happens. But this – snoozing quietly with their mares on windy, sunny, warm days in the springtime – is the rule. When they’re not quietly grazing along, of course. 🙂
Disappointment Valley (of which Spring Creek Basin is a part) got random rain drops and graupel (tiny little frozen snow balls) drops recently … but nothing stuck (some did, briefly, on the higher ridges that ring Spring Creek Basin), and it didn’t carry much moisture. Still, it’s spring, and hope springs eternal in Spring Creek Basin.

Sundance leaps a brush pile while following his band around another band at a pond.

Maia and the La Sals.
Blessed.

Storm struts his stuff in front of one of his admiring mares.
He IS that handsome!

Maybe not yet … but the rattlers don’t know it.
It’s warm and dry. Most of us are hoping for rain.

That’s *just* wind giving Ty his rockstar “do.” 🙂