Fuzzy ol’ Ty helps show off that promontory in the background.
Subdued
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Categories : Brumley Point, McKenna Peak Wilderness Study Area, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Spotlight-worthy
5 01 2017
Tesora helps show off another unnamed promontory, farther up the valley. Behind her is the shadowed ridge of Brumley Point, and above and beyond that is our previously unnamed promontory, now called Temple Butte in honor of Pati and David Temple, who advocated tirelessly for Spring Creek Basin’s mustangs (David still does, and Pati spreads her angel’s wings over our blessed basin).
The very last light lit up that promontory, and it was hard to balance its brightness with the already shadowed foreground – and mustangs. So that’s not snow; it’s very-bright sunshine spotlighting the golden rock of the promontory.
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, McKenna Peak Wilderness Study Area, Pati Temple, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
‘Every shift of light’
4 01 2017
Temple Butte gleams golden in the last light of a “trying to snow” day while Brumley Peak has just a spot of light on its serrated flank.
Brumley Point is mostly within Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area. The southeastern boundary fence climbs a lower ridge to the first wall of rimrock. Temple Butte is outside Spring Creek Basin but visible from almost anywhere in the basin (and far beyond). They’re both within McKenna Peak Wilderness Study Area, which also covers a fair bit of the southern, southeastern and eastern parts of the basin.
The mustangs showed up just a bit after I took these photos from the road. … They weren’t quite as cooperative in the last light of day as the steadfast mesas and buttes. 🙂
And the trails I ride are new
Even though I’ve made the circle many times before
For they change with every season
And with every shift of light
From the summit where the clouds fall to the sweet, valley floor.
~ from “The Circle” by Dave Stamey
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Categories : Brumley Point, McKenna Peak Wilderness Study Area, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte
The light that shines
3 01 2017
Grey and brown are our colors of late. We’ve been waiting for this big snowstorm that has been in the forecast for days, but it hasn’t hit us yet. Meanwhile, we have plenty of moisture (aka mud). 🙂
And every now and then, a ray of light.
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Categories : Brumley Point, McKenna Peak Wilderness Study Area, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Our horizon, our world
2 01 2017
S’aka pauses for a pony nap on top of the world. Not a bad place to stop and smell the clean wind. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Happy New Year!
1 01 2017
Best wishes to you and all our beloved wild critters – especially our mustangs and wild burros – as we march into a new year full of hopes and expectations and gratitude for the blessings that surround us!
Happy 2017!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Walking into a new day
31 12 2016
Worldwide, and on the home ranges of wild horses and burros, 2016 was a fairly tough year. It was a pretty darn good year in Spring Creek Basin, but I’ve heard a number of people say how glad they are to put 2016 behind them, and they hope 2017 will be better.
I count my blessings every day for this life I love, that I get to live among wild creatures in a stunningly wild place (which has its own human challenges). So in saying good-bye to one year and looking forward to the new, hopefully gratitude will remain my best attitude. With the horses reminding me every day how beautiful is this amazing natural, wild world, that doesn’t seem to be a resolution that will be at all difficult to keep. 🙂
Farewell, 2016!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Lookee here, handsome
30 12 2016
Copp’ry Copper on a glistening winter day full of snow … and mud. But the mucky stuff didn’t deter this intrepid mustang tracker from enjoying the day and the mustangs. 🙂 And it was a beautiful day with beautiful horses!
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Pinto ‘n blue
29 12 2016
Pretty spotted girl Reya walks a ridgeline against a bluebird Colorado sky. She’s not in deep snow up to her knees and hocks; she was just enough on the other side of the crest that it only looks that way. 🙂
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Great, gorgeous, golden girl
28 12 2016
The look of ages. Sweet Kestrelita.
It was very windy during the days leading up to Christmas, and that and the warm temps helped melt the snow on the yonder hills.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
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