How do you spell a catcall whistle? 🙂
I mean, really! Right?!
Young Kwana is a handsome boy!
A yearling colt from one band was playing with a stallion from another band when Kwana decided that he was being left out of the fun and trotted over to join the game.
Beautiful Piedra, we love you so.
Ah … full pond. 🙂
‘Nuff said!
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Happy birthday to mustang volunteer extraordinaire, Frank Amthor! Thank you for all you do for our mustangs in Spring Creek Basin!
This photo seems so grey … but the day was so vibrant with rain-green grass and sunset light on the far ridges.
Finding Skywalker and his pals over a ridge was a beautiful bonus. 🙂
Ho hum. Just another gorgeous grey hunk of a wild stallion.
🙂
Sundance in the wind.
For whatever reason, I love this image of Ty. Just an everyday motion to rub a fly off his leg or reach for a mouthful of grass, but there’s beauty in all those little movements of the task of living in the wild moment.
Maiku is looking for love.
Advice to a young stallion: When targeting a mare, try not to pick a band that already has a lieutenant stallion.
Rain at sunset over Utah’s La Sal Mountains, looking to the northwestish – golden rain.
And looking to the eastish across Spring Creek Basin to McKenna Peak, Temple Butte, Brumley Point and beyond … pink rain.
Mother Nature has a pretty amazing palette out here in the wide, wild, beautiful world. 🙂
How do ya’ll like that grass? 🙂
The horses look wet because they ARE wet; they’d been drinking and playing in a recently filled pond. They were headed (away) up a trail when I walked out to check the status of the pond. They stopped and looked back … and then I had to scramble to dump my backpack and fumble my camera out and get it turned on and hope the settings were any kind of decent when they ran down and circled around me.
Well, hello to you beautiful ponies, too!
Friend and mustang lover Bebe June Mantooth created this AMAZING scale model of Spring Creek Basin mustangs, and my folks brought it to me during a visit from Texas (where they and Bebe live). It was the first time I’d seen it (not even pictures), and to say it was a “pleasant surprise” is the understatement of the year!
The photos really don’t do it justice. It’s simply spectacular. Specific mustangs in Spring Creek Basin – including horses in two bands and several bachelor stallions – are memorialized in this model (contained in a box that is painted inside – also by Bebe) that I will treasure forever.
This is the view through the looking glass (window) in one end of the box. Bachelors are in the foreground, and two bands are in the distance (middle ground and back). Can you identify anybody? 🙂
Looking straight into the box of beautiful. You can see the window at right. Not shown in any of the pictures is the lid, which is lined with tiny lights, so when the lid is closed, you can look in on the mustangs’ tiny little magical world. 🙂
Another view that shows some of the topographic detail. Don’t miss the grey mares under the juniper trees.
A closer view of the bands – and look! They’re going to water! Which is awesomely awesome because we’ve just had some more incredible rain, which was a pond-filling gift from heaven!
A better look at the bachelor boys. Surely readers will recognize some of the horses? 🙂
Through the looking glass again. Below the window is the little plaque my mom and dad had made for it. 🙂
HUGE THANKS to artist Bebe for the skill and love that went into creating this one-of-a-kind mustang masterpiece! I can’t even begin to tell you all how meaningful and incredible this is!
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 