Tenaz may look surprised by the sudden snow blanketing his previously very brown world … but really, he was looking down the ridge at another stallion.
We got about an inch and a half of the good, white wet stuff before it all soaked into the ground, leaving it as brown as before … but nicely more damp. 🙂
Mariah does the mosey-graze along the edge of a hill that drops down to the Spring Creek arroyo. That’s Knife Edge looking dramatic in the background.
This was two evenings ago.
Last night, we had a couple of waves of over-too-soon rain (I’m not kidding; the first wave lasted about three minutes, and the second lasted about eight minutes). At least the top layer of dust was dampened.
More, please!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ahhhh. Another golden-glorious evening in Spring Creek Basin. Peace brought to you courtesy of Shane and Odin.
No height is unachievable by Spring Creek Basin’s mustangs. 🙂 This is Buckeye, and he and the band weren’t actually too high up the base of Knife Edge. But the steepness of the slope still gave him reason to carefully pick his way down among the little rocks as he searched out green goodness.
It’s been about a week and a half now since I took this (and many more) pic of Winona with a storm clearing and swirling above Utah’s La Sal Mountains on the northwestern horizon. The day was *gorgeous*.
It’s a good thing those mountains and Colorado’s have snow … but it’s not a lot. It’s less day by day. And none of that snow reaches Spring Creek Basin. Not even Disappointment Creek, which has had only sporadically running water so far this year, is doing very well (and it doesn’t run through Spring Creek Basin at all).
The view is gorgeous, but the outlook for this summer is grim.
Magical Maiku.
Even over your shoulder, always look ahead.
Any way you slice (crop) it, Buckeye is one handsome fellow.
Actually, only the third one was cropped – at little off the left side. The first two are as taken, but with my long lens and the land rising behind me, I couldn’t quite get the fullness of the image. The third image is from my phone.
Love the way the two junipers arch directly over him. He chose the spot for the shade, but c’mon, maybe a little bit of artistry??
Sometimes the best images come right to your camera, just as you’re leaving Spring Creek Basin with no expectation of seeing horses right along the road in spectacular light. 🙂
Temple-the-gorgeous was at her most-gorgeous while walking along catching up to the band, all of whom had already dropped low while grazing.
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 