Spring is here. Here’s the proof in the budding greasewood. 🙂
I’m always happy when I see the greasewood budding again. It’s a good source of protein that the mustangs eat like ice cream. I equate it with warming weather, shedding coats and plumping ponies.
This young stallion is following a bigger band – at a respectful distance. Even from the other side of a little ridge, he keeps an eye on the other horses.
Lingering clouds crown Utah’s La Sal Mountains, ever-present sentinels of our northwestern horizon.
Kestrel makes that horizon view so much more … wild.
I can’t really explain what captures me about this pic of Terra … but maybe it captures you, too.
Flash makes his way down a muddy trail from ridgetop to arroyo bottom. A band was drinking at the seep (there’s almost always water there) while he was moseying. By the time he arrived, they had mostly left and were grazing above the arroyo and below the neighboring ridgetop.
He may be losing his spots to his greyness, but he’s still a pretty striking young stallion!
Cassidy Rain and most of her band were on a big open flat, and a few other members of the band and I were about halfway up a hill still. Every now and then, she would pause her grazing and check in with her band mates. While they’re all always aware of the locations of each other, Cassidy Rain seems to have an innate “mothering” instinct that has her keeping close track of her friends.
It will be great to start seeing the shedding of that velvet coat for her slick ‘n shiny summer sleekness!
Sunshine on Reya after the storm. The ground is drying out now, but we had great mud after our recent great snow, rain and drizzle days. She’s still fuzzy, but the ponies are starting to shed. … Yesterday was the spring equinox; spring definitely is on the way.
Beautiful Bia is getting ready to celebrate her very first birthday, and she’s getting dressed up for the party! Every girl needs a little bling to celebrate a milestone. Ya gotta get it where ya find it!
Cheeky little baby doll! 🙂
On St. Patrick’s Day in Disappointment Valley, we had a bit of gold under the rainbow (and yes, it was sprinkling when I took these pix (above with my phone; below with my camera)).
In Disappointment Valley (which includes Spring Creek Basin), WATER is the treasure! In our case, there’s a whole lotta mud under that rainbow right now, and we’re feeling pretty rich. 🙂
(And yes, these pix were taken the evening of St. Patrick’s Day – no kidding!)
Odin keeps his “aunties” Piedra and Kestrel company while napping – or was it the other way around? 🙂
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 