My beloved.
Isn’t he stunning? 🙂
Taken Thursday this week. That’s more snow coming in the background of the second pic.
Still has all his girls. He amazes me with his grace and beauty. I love them all … but HE is most beloved. 🙂
Grey and blue and white
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Tolerance …
12 02 2012… thy name is mother.
You thought witchy wind knots came from never-ending gusts of indiscriminate, wild, howling, desert bellows, didn’t you?
And now you know the truth of the matter. 🙂
Baby Aurora yummie-yummed on mama Alegre’s dreds for quite a long time before mama finally got tired and took the step or three necessary to put her just out of daughter’s reach … her lock of mane resting now dark and wet and thoroughly gummed against her shoulder. Baby-girl turned to find something more appetizing – and nutritious? – at ground level.
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Ty
12 02 2012“Solid” grey in a sea of spots, that’s our Ty.
He has some dapply bits and “spots” all over. 🙂
From a couple of weeks ago.
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Corazon and no-name
12 02 2012
Corazon in the shade below sunlit unnamed promontory.
Corazon with Chipeta and Puzzle. His relationship with the horses – and band stallion Ty – continues to be a source of curious fascination to me. This young stallion (I think he’s probably around 6 now?) has free rein with the horses, and both he and Ty are relentless in keeping Copper away (when he’s with the band). Maybe he’s Kiowa’s son … which would make him half-brother of Reya and Maiku … or …?
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Red on white
11 02 2012
Pretty Gaia.
Though this photo obscures her belly (I loved how the white fore- and background framed her bold color, centered by her wide, echo-the-snow blaze), she’s not particularly showing much yet. There’s a certain “firmness” there that I kept eyeing, though. She *should be* pregnant; daddy: Cinch.
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Play!
11 02 2012Babies don’t need an excuse to play. But snow and crisp light make a good excuse to play!
Aurora kicking up snow!
When the tail flies, fun is being had!
Coming to rest between Corona and mama Alegre (barely visible at back left).
Baby at home with Brumley Point in the background.
Another update: Seven is back with Aurora’s daddy Bounce and young Tenaz. Duke and Kreacher are still a pair.
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Breeze & Sage
11 02 2012These boys are ready for winter!
Breeze
Sage
Aren’t they handsome in their snazzy blankets?
Breeze and Sage were adopted by the I family and now live near Denver. They adopted Breeze in 2000 and Sage in 2007, and they have been big ambassadors of Spring Creek Basin mustangs ever since!
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Background
11 02 2012From last week. It had snowed earlier in the day – lightly – and the sun was out and behind clouds, which made for interesting light.
Chipeta and Puzzle grazing in the shade with McKenna Peak looming in the sunshine above them.
They were separate from Copper this day. I hope he reunited with them.
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Chrome
10 02 2012And this time, I mean it!
Chrome in the quiet light of early evening a couple of weeks ago.
Love his backlit face and mane against the dark background.
These are the pix I meant to post earlier … then the pic of Sundance caught my eye … It happens. 🙂
He’s such a handsome, stately fellow.
A little update – possibly – to his band: I think Roja and Killian are back with Aspen. I’m not 100 percent certain; I saw what I think was all of them, from a great distance, separately but fairly close to each other, this week. I could have hiked a distance to them … or a distance to Grey/Traveler’s and Sundance’s bands … and I chose the latter. Pix to come.
We got about a foot of snow early this week in the Disappointment area. We desperately need the moisture, but with it – and the warm temperatures – comes mud. So it was a hike-in day, not a drive-in day. Fabulous, it was. 🙂
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Greasewood sea
8 02 2012Usually, the pintos are horses I see every now and then, usually when I see them from the road and can hike directly to them. But lately I’ve been looking for them because they’ve been a bit easier to find than the horses “interior” where I haven’t gone fearing mud (and potential Jeep-stuck-ness). I am getting terribly anxious to see the other horses, but for now, I am content with spots.
From about a week ago. Reya (front) and Puzzle grazing among the greasewood. Except for the lack-o-green, it doesn’t look very wintry, does it? And the greasewood is not really as thick and dense as it seems from the lens compression. But I thought it was an interesting perspective, as tall as it is, the horses seeming to wade through it like through water.
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