Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Seeing spring coats revealed is better than Christmas morning. 🙂

The very best view: wild ponies against the far hills.

Even the most beautiful mustangs aren’t shy about making funny faces. 🙂

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. 🙂

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.