Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

In the bike-repair business, many great customer stories start off like this: “I was just riding along when …” Having worked at a bike shop, I heard plenty of those stories. As a bike rider, I told plenty of those stories.

So the Spring Creek Basin version goes like this: I was just sitting on a rock under a tree in the shade, hiding from the hot, hot, HOT sunshine, when the magic of the wild decided I was in the right place, and it was the right time. Whew.

Although it looks like handsome Tenaz is waving hello, his attention is all on Hayden, out of the frame to the left. 🙂

No spaghetti necessary. 🙂 Storm grazes with two of his lovely ladies, Gaia and Cassidy Rain, on a hot, hot afternoon.

Mariah at sunset in a field of amber-waving grain. She’s just kissed with a little light at the very end of the day.

Apollo and Killian raise some dust getting away from Comanche, who decided they were too close to his girls.

Killian tries to tempt Duke to play while S’aka grazes nearby. Duke is very good with the younger bachelors.

Happy accident: Comanche in high-key definition. Apparently, I bumped the camera’s settings, so instead of getting “normal” images, a whole string were terribly overexposed. And what a bummer with Comanche chasing the bachelors and them scattering in every direction right in front of me.

But I decided to play with some, just for grins, and I kinda like the way they turned out. In this one, in particular, I love Comanche’s glowing brown eye and the hint of green.

Apollo photobombs Duke’s time in the spotlight.

Another view of Skywalker and S’aka. Our mustangs come in all sizes and many colors. 🙂

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Rain, rain, beautiful rain. We finally got some.

Pals Killian, Skywalker, S’aka and Kreacher graze together, calm as can be. Later, the younger boys ran around and played, expending lots of youthful energy.

Handsome Seven shows the scars of a wild life well lived.