Handsome Buckeye in a sea of autumn grasses.
Amber waves
6 11 2024Comments : 6 Comments »
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The eyes have it
5 11 2024
Big baby Bia grazes with mama Aiyanna. Big “baby” girl isn’t so little anymore!
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Direct
4 11 2024
Caughtcha lookin’. 🙂
Not much bothers Kestrel, but she does like to keep her eyes on the goings-on around her family. I like to keep my eyes on HER because sometimes she’ll give me a great, direct look!
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Never a bad place
3 11 2024
It’s hard to choose a *bad* place to nap in Spring Creek Basin. I had about 2.5 minutes with them after I walked out with that lovely last bit of light … and then night’s shadow overtook our part of the world.
What a gorgeous 2.5 minutes. 🙂
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Waitin’ on sunset
2 11 2024
Temple and Madison. Gorgeous girls. Besties. Wild and free mustang mares.
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Season’s first snow
1 11 2024
So THIS happened Wednesday! On top of the rain mud, the snow made conditions, um, muddIER. 🙂
These lovelies weren’t the only ones.
But wait! There’s more!
How many do you count? 🙂
As it turned out, though I spent a couple of hours in the basin – enough time for most of the snow (1 to 3 inches, depending on location) to melt! – I saw only ONE band of mustangs. They were farther than I wanted to hike in the snow and mud, so I looked in the far corners for another, closer band – without success. By the time I went back to the first band, they’d decided (anthropomorphism alert) they didn’t want to be leftovers and had disappeared. 🙂
I was just happy to see the snow and the mud and the one band and all the pronghorns (which have been very visible lately, though mostly a bit lower). We’re going to have mud for a while – especially with more rain/snow due Sunday!
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Categories : Pronghorn, Snow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area
Spooooookeeeeee
31 10 2024Red sky at night, sailors’ delight.
Red in the morning, sailors take warning.
The following pix are from sunset the night of Oct. 28 (I couldn’t think of anything spookier for today’s post!).
Morning the 29th was grey and dark – and raining from the heavens! – and I was fully delighted by both the light show … and then with all of the RAIN (0.86 inch total)!
Am I right, or am I right?! The above is nearly straight out of my camera – I sized it and applied some sharpening. That’s looking west.
This is the spookiest part of the post (!). Looking east toward/across/beyond Spring Creek Basin. Again, the only thing I did was size it and apply some sharpening.
And a bit closer as the color was absolutely exploding.
The above are from my camera; the below – for wider views – from my phone (again, nothing but sizing and sharpening):
And:
I don’t know about sailors (any folks on actual waves are half a continent away), but *I* was the very best kind of astounded!
And very grateful for the rain overnight and the next morning. 🙂
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Categories : Brumley Point, Colorado, Disappointment Valley, McKenna Peak, Rain, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte
Bruised, not shaken
30 10 2024
A closeup view of Flash, a bit battered but never to be counted out. 🙂
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Greetings over there!
29 10 2024
Mariah whinnies to a band she can see a pretty fair distance away. I’m not sure who she was communicating with – or trying to – but it elicited a couple of answering (sympathetic?) whinnies from a couple of her band mates.
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Update: It is raining like crazy over Disappointment Valley and the entire region (all of the Western Slope, according to the radar, which very often lies, but I think is pretty accurate right now!). This is only a guess currently (9 a.m.), but I’m sure all those little and big arroyos are running, I’m sure Spring Creek is running again, I’m sure Disappointment Creek is running! I’m sure ponds are filling (whether from dry depressions or semi-full already), and I’m equally sure this is fantastic for all the water catchments in the basin.
Yay for late-season RAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Feel the change
28 10 2024
Something other than me caught Chipeta’s attention the other day: my buggy, which I’d left along the road to hike out to her and her band. 🙂
Warm days, cold nights; short(er) days and crisp nights (they don’t seem too long yet … until the time change?). The ponies have thickening coats, and the feeling of late autumn is palpable. Rain in the forecast today and tomorrow. Snow in much of western Colorado on Wednesday.
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Happy birthday to my very wonderful mom, Nancy! 🙂 I owe much of my strength and half of my strong love of horses to her. I love you, Mom! 🙂
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Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 