Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Like mother, like daughter; Alegre and Maia. Beauty-full grey girls!

Are they the cutest or what?!

Answer: They’re the cutest. 🙂

Buckeye and Rowan.

You cannot possibly wonder why I adore backlighting. 🙂 That’s Mariah, rimmed in light, as she follows her band and another to the arroyo that is Spring Creek to drink from the cool, pooled and trickling water left from the last flood.

It’s here – autumn – as the hues of the Earth and light start to soften and turn gold – even earlier and later than golden hours.

I love autumn and its beautiful light that embraces the mustangs during the last warm days of summer.

Sweet Chipeta, loved by light and all humans fortunate enough to gaze upon her.

A whole photo essay could be dedicated to the artistry of the mustang tail swish. This one, catching that luscious light, would come in near the top of the gallery.

(Photo-nerdy background info: I regularly delete pix that show a horse with a “normal” or straight-hanging tail as opposed to pix that show a lovely swish. I regularly let my camera indulge in its fast burst rate to take multiple images of a moment in order to hopefully get that *pretty* swish (let alone other loveliness).)

All magic, all (OK, most of) the time.