Maia and Houdini. The “black” girl someday will be as grey as her “auntie,” and her snow mustache won’t be nearly as noticeable. 🙂
We do need more snow. It has been warm and melty, and snow mud has become mud soup. Can’t deny that the days have been gorgeous, but I’d like to order some heaping helpings of snow!
Grey/Traveler got a pony for Christmas! Sometime in the last few days, he acquired Shane. His other girls seem to accept her right into the family. The mister still is going strong.
… is that these mustangs know freedom and wildness always.
Many thanks to all of you for supporting our Spring Creek Basin mustangs. May you know peace and wildness in the coming year.
Merry Christmas!
Cassidy Rain with two of Spring Creek Basin’s most prominent landmarks in the background: McKenna Peak (though it’s hard to distinguish from this view) and the unnamed promontory. Classic wildness.
Pretty Piedra.
Happy solstice (yesterday)! Now we begin the rise from the dark of winter to the light of spring. On the solstice in Disappointment Valley, it snowed. I like to take that as a good sign of moisture to come.
Gorgeous Gaia and her daughter, Cassidy Rain, at sunset. Don’t their thick coats look warm and beautiful? It has been warm lately (40s and 50s!), and lots of our snow has melted. Our forecast snow hasn’t yet arrived.
Storm follows his band as the very last sunlight of the day touches Spring Creek Basin and the La Sal Mountains.
Now the forecast doesn’t show snow until Friday. The mud is getting, well, muddy. Some fresh snow would be welcome. The ponies certainly aren’t hurting for groceries.
Storm and his band beneath the La Sal Mountains. Those patches of brown may soon disappear under white again if the forecast holds true and we get snow toward the end of this week. Gaia’s coat just glows in the late light, doesn’t it?
These are the riches we should strive for in support of America’s wildness. Celebrate the 42nd anniversary of the Wild Free-Roaming Wild Horses and Burros Act; celebrate the “tonic of wildness” that we have and must not lose.
Something was lurking in the grass under the snow. Something I never saw. Something whose danger level apparently melted as Winona walked by. This was one of the only shots I got of her with her head up. Apparently, I wasn’t enough of a danger to merit a raised head. 🙂 She’s such a lovely girl.
Sweet Madison models the snowy mustache she “grew” while brushing snow aside from low-growing vegetation with her nimble lips. Look at her thick, velvety hair. Nature’s perfect winter coat.
