Faery lights

16 04 2013

Comanche at sunset.

Adore Comanche in the dancing light at the end-o-day.

Do you think they know how gorgeous they are? How perfectly they catch the light and reflect its magic? They make my heart sing. What songs fill their hearts?





Low man

15 04 2013

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Young Apollo no longer is low man in the bachelor heirarchy; now newcomer Killian fills that spot.

Rite of passage for a colt leaving mama’s side and joining the stallion ranks.





(Un)ruffled

14 04 2013

The wind was ruffling their manes and tails and forelocks, but they – Hayden, indeed – were completely unruffled by our presence.

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Hayden is not pictured in this lineup because he had started walking up the road to where I had stopped the Jeep.

From left: Tenaz (almost 3), Apollo (almost 2), Killian (!) (almost 2) and Aspen (probably 11+).

A couple of visits ago, Killian was not with mama Roja and her band (Storm’s band, which includes Gaia and her daughter, Cassidy Rain). I hoped he hooked up with the bachelor boys; he did! Aren’t they the picture of innocence in the pic above? 🙂 Killian appears to be an “off” shade of bay because he will turn grey, like his sire, Seven.

And, because I can’t leave him out, and because he was posing so handsomely for my friend Nancy, who was lying on the ground to photograph him, Mister Hayden:

Hayden, watching Nancy on the ground taking pix of him.

Love, love, love his heart-star. From the cutest baby to quite a handsome young mister, this Grey/Traveler son is filling out very well.

As you can tell, it was a pretty windy day. Rain is in the forecast; all dances, finger- and toe-crossing welcome!

Our friend Ann also was with us for a visit to the horses. We saw Shadow and her baby girl (and Seven and Puzzle) but from a very great distance.

I also want to give a shout to friends Sue and Roy, who also were visiting the horses. Roy was the first to spot last year’s first foal of the year AND named her: Mariah. What a gorgeous girl she is growing up to be.





Welcome, baby!

13 04 2013

Shadow has our first baby of the year!

***Update: I’ve looked back through my notes, and it looks like DAVID definitely is the sire of this darling little girl. 🙂

Shadow and her new filly.

She looks a bit like Storm as a baby.

Shadow and her new filly.

Shadow stands over her little girl while she naps.

Shadow, her new filly and Seven.

Shadow and baby with stepdaddy Seven. Check out baby’s curled ears. 🙂 I love seeing that!

Like my mom said: “Spring time = baby time!”





Blow

12 04 2013

Puzzle "blowing" at me.

Nooooo … not THAT kind of blow. Check out her nostrils. She’s giving me the universal wild horse signal for “intruder alert.” She and Seven are the only horses that give me the “blow” anymore. But she’s so darn cute, I can’t even mind.





Girls

11 04 2013

Here’s a current look at Sundance’s girls Raven and Kootenai:

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Kootenai

Raven

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Pretty, happy, healthy girls.





Pale on blue

10 04 2013

Corona

Soft colors complement Corona this cloudy day.

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Rain turned to snow – that stuck. It was light. It was wet. It is awesome! It won’t be as cold here as in the Denver area, which is good for the horses. The moisture is such a relief.





Some lovin’

9 04 2013

Skywalker and stepdaddy Sundance

Well, it looks like some lovin’, but it was Skywalker’s sneaky (yeah, right) attempt to get stepdaddy Sundance to play with him. Which didn’t happen. The grass was too much to pass up for play time.

This doesn’t show Skywalker’s belly in all its little-boy roundness, but he looks about as round as his mama Raven and “auntie” Kootenai. I’ll post some pix of the girls soon and let YOU all be the judges. Maybe so, maybe no? They should be, they might be, they ought to be. We ought to see soon enough.

Raven still was nursing Skywalker a couple of weeks ago, but I didn’t see him nurse in the short time I spent with them on this particular evening. She does seem round … but not huge? Same with Kootenai, who did not have a foal last year (not that survived), but who otherwise might not be due until August. Healthy, they are most definitely.

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WE GOT RAIN! Marvelous, glorious, lovely rain. Picture the world green. My favorite color.

Somebody upstairs is finally givin’ us some lovin’. And we are grateful!





Where the water is …

8 04 2013

… the wild things are:

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Raven, Sundance, Skywalker, Kootenai and Mysterium drink at the trickle, which still is trickling. Corona was waiting her turn.

Lots of deer tracks here, too.





Background

7 04 2013

Seven, Puzzle and Shadow in front of the La Sal Mountains.

It’s hard to hide when you choose this kind of “camouflage.”

Seven, Puzzle and Shadow against the La Sal Mountains.