Or an apricot!
But that just doesn’t have the same ring to it for sweet girl Kootenai. Lovely.
It sprinkled today, but you’d never know it. Gaia-girl and Storm, along with Cassidy Rain and Roja, were at the Sorrel Flats pond. Walking to the east-pocket pond (to the north) were Seven, Puzzle, Shadow and Tesora. That’s a little change of location for them. There was a lone pronghorn with them when I first saw them, but it didn’t follow them to the pond.
Roja is due to foal in a couple of days, but she doesn’t look imminently due. She lost her foal in 2012, so I’m basing her due date on the approximate time she should have foaled last year.
Some high, thin clouds allowed some light to filter down during the early evening, and it rims the girl in such a lovely way.
And because we can’t forget Miss Cassidy Rain:
She pops up over a little hill, and she gives ME the schnortle! She’ll celebrate her first birthday in early June.
The bay stallion with “the dark band” in the Jicarilla warns the “grey” pinto stallion away from his mares.
To mamas big and small, two-legged and four- … with gratitude for all you do to love and protect us and keep us safe, and teach us the ways of the world.
XOXO!
Grey/Traveler illustrates snaking behavior, in this case, aimed at keeping Houdini grazing where he wanted her.
Handsome big guy from the Jicarilla, seen early in the morning – his band was the first we saw the morning of the tour. This was taken through my Jeep’s window as he was below the road with his band.
Mama Alegre and daughter Maia (now 1 year old!) a couple of days after Maia’s birthday. They were grazing near the roller-coaster ridge pond – likely where they got their matching spa treatments. Maia looks like big sister Aurora and their daddy Bounce, but where Aurora may stay black like daddy, Maia is going grey like mama – and big brother Whisper.
In other news, the La Sals, starting to look a little ragged in this photo, have a mantle of new white now after some rain in the low country and snow in the high country. It’s a start, and it’s a relief. It IS green. I don’t understand it, but I love it! The moisture will help tremendously.
Chipeta, right, watches while Seven grazes with his mares, Puzzle and Shadow, and his stepdaughter, Tesora. Chipeta is Puzzle’s mama; she’s with Ty and their daughter, Seneca, who were out of this shot to the right. Copper also was with them. On this particular evening, their “spaces” overlapped a bit.
A return to home with Duke and Kreacher, pictured in front of two of our most recognizable landmarks: McKenna Peak (pyramid) and the unnamed promontory.
Home is where the heart is.