Kestrel, leaving.
Just a glimpse
13 10 2024Comments : 6 Comments »
Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Mastering the sun
12 10 2024
Looking at a bachelor intruder; looking back to the safety of his band.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Swish and a view
11 10 2024
Lovely, very muddy Seneca was intent on her grazing, but I couldn’t let that gorgeous view go undocumented, so I hit the shutter anyway. And viewers do get a dynamic tail swish in lieu of anything else exciting on this very gorgeous autumn evening. 🙂
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Soft light
10 10 2024
Sundance and his daughter graze and watch a nearby band under the soft light of clouds (finally!) at sunset.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Clouds
9 10 2024
For weeks and weeks (it feels that way if maybe not quite accurate?), we’ve had nothing but blue skies. Like, solid blue. Even when we don’t get rain (we haven’t had any of that for a while, either … prayers to those devastated by the hurricane past and the one about to hit), we like to have clouds.
We finally got clouds today, and I was so happy to see their return, I’m doing a whole post about how great are clouds. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area
Early to nap
8 10 2024
Maia at her ease. Just nappin’ on a warm autumn (Indian summer, anyone?) evening.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
The height of Disappointment
7 10 2024
A recent color (aspen) drive brought me back to Disappointment Valley from the top.
There’s not a lot of color at the top – pictured is Gambel oak – but the views are extraordinary.
Lots (relatively) of ponderosa pines.
That butte is not Temple Butte, by the way. Temple Butte is quite a bit farther down-valley.
Sunset layers. Its own style of autumn color.
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Categories : Colorado, Disappointment Valley
Reliance
6 10 2024
Part of a lieutenant stallion’s duties are to watch for danger, complementary to the band stallion’s duties of the same. Corazon is the band stallion, Maiku the lieutenant, and they’ve together so long that their mutual reliance is obvious.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Facing the light
5 10 2024
Handsome little Maiku was watching some horses that had crossed an arroyo and were grazing their way up the hill. He and his band had just grazed their way into the light from the shade cast by the butte across the drainage. Perfectly lit. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Just right light
4 10 2024
After being roused from his nap spot by the main band rousing from THEIR nap spot, Sancho looks back to check their progress.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 