A frog in the desert? Yup. Disappointment Valley got a few drops of rain – enough to hit the water catchment’s aprons. In the puddled water at the base of one of those aprons was this little critter. S/he seemed to be alone. There’s rain in the forecast, but we’ve had a tough time getting it to actually fall on the target (that’d be Spring Creek Basin). But our range and ponies still look pretty great – especially for September.
The life of a wild stallion isn’t all mares and roses. Thankfully, mustangs seem to heal ultra fast. 🙂
Those beautiful faces …! Houdini and Alegre epitomize wild, wary beauty in Spring Creek Basin.
“And now every day, every day
I wake up grateful
It’s a choice I make, every day
To keep it simple
And when come what may tries to shake my faith
At the end of the day I give it away
And lay my head down
And I wake up grateful.”
~ Templeton Thompson, “Wake Up Grateful”
Every single day, I wake up grateful for this life and those in it who give me every reason to be grateful.
With so much love and gratitude,
me
Does any mustang ever have a bad hair day? Or are they always completely perfect, in all their windblown beauty?
Yeah, pretty much the latter. 🙂
Isn’t master Maiku a handsome boy?
Jadi seems to enjoy the view as much as we did! Brumley Point in the background.
Chrome looks back toward another band during a pause in his return to his own band. That’s stately Brumley Point in the background. It straddles the basin’s southeastern boundary.
Our cameras were clicking like crazy as Spring Creek Basin’s own “Fabio” paused like a model in the middle of that stunning background. Cameras belonged to American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign Director Suzanne Roy and Colorado advocate Jen M. They were in the area to visit Mesa Verde National Park’s wild horses, and we were so thrilled to welcome them to Spring Creek Basin to see our own gorgeous mustangs!
Local mustang advocate Kat Wilder takes pix of Jen and Suzanne with Chrome’s band in the background.
Check out that sky. We were amazingly fortunate to get nearly half an inch of rain the day before their visit.
Thanks so much for coming, for your mustang insights and for admiring our beloved horses!
No matter the species, boys WILL be boys. 🙂 Skywalker had had enough nonchalant napping and pretty-picture posing. One of the funniest parts of this photo-taking episode was watching him get Kwana’s attention with the above behavior, then trot away in an effort to get Kwana to chase him.
Pretty Puzzle pony under sunset-painted rocks.
Please pardon the random blog posts lately; chalk it up to poor Internet service.
Sundance
Continuing with the mane theme … SunnyD’s also is enviable.
