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? 🙂
Mysterium. Her wild wisdom is her classic “mystery.” We like to think we know it. How amazing would it be if we really knew the broad variety of the wisdom she knows and shares with her bandmates? How amazing would it be if we humans knew or could learn a fraction of the wisdom these wild ones know in their bones, through the ages and their mothers and mothers’ mothers?
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We had a wonderful little snowfall yesterday morning (from overnight). Nice and heavy and wet, and the parched ground and vegetation slurped it all up in practically record time. We might get more. We HOPE for more!
Mud is a good thing. 🙂
Don’t look now, but the snow is coming.
Oh, wait, carry on. It didn’t make it actually into the valley from the southern ridges. (Argh!)
Buckeye and his family weren’t worried (by it coming or by it not actually reaching us). Of course. 🙂
While Denver and the Front Range of Colorado hog the snow (sorry about your “impossible driving conditions” as we continue to be super dry over here in, you know, the OTHER part(s) of the state), we’re hoping to get any bits of the dregs?! Pretty please?
Storm graciously paused in his grazing – though not in his chewing – to give me a long look on a glorious evening. (I love how his long tail is casually draped over a bit of vegetation.) The ground was still somewhat damp from recent moisture, and graupel still held its “ball” shapes in little piles under bigger, sheltering shrubs like shadscale and four-wing saltbush. There was something to love for all of us.
Lovely Seneca on another quiet, peaceful, beautiful evening in Spring Creek Basin. We’ve had a run of these ordinarily extraordinary days – that also happen to be very, mostly dry. Starting today, though, we have moisture in the forecast – for the next several days! If we get even a fraction of the forecast rain, snow or both, I’ll be doing cartwheels (or what passes for cartwheels at my age). 🙂
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 