Terra and the belly saga

28 07 2012

Busy, busy and rain, rain!

THREE ponds have been dug out, including the northwest pond previously featured (and it turns out that the panorama I posted earlier was NOT the finished product). There’s nothing too sexy about pix of dry, dug-out ponds, but I will tell you that the northwest, roadside and trapsite ponds all are dug out deeper now … just in time for the marvelous, glorious rain that (keeps coming today and) leaves me dancing for joy!

I am super grateful – again – to C and J from the Forest Service (Dolores and Durango offices) for doing such a fantastic job with those ponds!

And now, on to Terra. A friend and I were in the basin this last week and got a nice, close-up look at Chrome’s band, which were right by the road and Filly Peak as we left at sunset.

I know what you’re all going to say.

Go ahead and say it. 🙂 It’s possible that it could be probable.

Winona-girl and Chrome

Always handsome!





More darlings

26 07 2012

Miss Temple and Miss Shane, gorgeous girls against the light.





Darlings

25 07 2012

Maia and Mariah, beautiful baby girls, living wild in their beautiful wild world.





Tolerance

24 07 2012

Oh, what mamas have to put up with. 🙂

But the love … the love …





Sky and light

23 07 2012

Raven and her mini me:

Isn’t it amazing how alike they are?

You can see him already going grey.

What a little sweetheart of a baby boy!





Supreme

23 07 2012

It was inevitable, with three bands coming into fairly close proximity, that the boys would have disputes of territory that led to discussions.

Yes, they reared and pawed the air, but I like this better, Grey’s mane rising in the wind and with the motion of his trot as he followed Hollywood past Hollywood’s band, intent on … whatever stallion-talk he had to impart.

Still supreme. The “old man’s” still got it!





Sisters, full of grace

22 07 2012

Full sisters Madison and Juniper – daughters of Comanche and Kestrel – follow mama and daddy.

Madison, so secure in her place in the world; Juniper, so focused on little sister, as she leads her to safety and security of family.





Piedra & Temple

22 07 2012

The wind picked up in the evening with a storm coming, and I loved the graceful flow of Piedra’s light tail against the dark of daughter Temple.

Grey/Traveler’s band still was nearby … and Temple is looking at Comanche’s band, in the other direction.





Reach

21 07 2012

Isn’t she stunning? Mariah, daughter of Grey/Traveler and Houdini.

This image doesn’t capture the subtle, glowing red rose of her greying coat.

Perfection on four legs!





Swoosh!

21 07 2012

No, that kind … this kind!:

Is she – Maia – not the cutest thing going?! That’s Mariah behind her and mama Alegre in front of her. The baby girls were reacting to Hollywood’s band coming over a rise in the distance.

They were excited; mamas were not worried.