From my vantage point with another band, I saw these lovelies lined out walking toward a pond in the distance.
We’re really all just small critters in this great, wide and wild world of ours.
See them?
See the other thems? 🙂
Lined out
14 12 2023Comments : 6 Comments »
Categories : Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Companionable
13 12 2023
With winter coats like those, mustangs can nap comfortably even with a nippy wind swirling.
And with a view like that, who wouldn’t want to peacefully linger?
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Lavender land
12 12 2023
The clouds were playing tag with the lowering sun, and while I was waiting for a bit more light on the scene, the subtle light was just divine.
Despite the sharp wind, Sundance was perfectly at ease. I was perfectly glad of all my layers!
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Snow so close
11 12 2023
From about mid-Spring Creek Basin looking northwest not long before sunset Friday evening. You know, the day we were supposed to get snow.
The passing snow squalls were “this side” (eastish) of Utah’s La Sal Mountains.
Later, very just most immediately before sunset shuttered the light on the rimrocks above Spring Creek canyon, the snow had passed, but the light was still gorgeous.
I was hoping sunset would light up those clouds like it did the previous night, when I was driving and had no camera to hand but my phone.
The cloud/sunset light show never really materialized (some subtle color), but THIS color is always gorgeous and rewarding! (Some snow ON us would have been greatly appreciated.)
Because I’ve referenced it, and because it deserves to be seen, this was the light show Thursday night from U.S. Highway 491 heading north from Cortez, Colorado:
The best camera is the one in your hand. The best light is that in front of you, wherever you are. 🙂
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek canyon
Bright-eyed boy
10 12 2023
Storm. My handsome heart.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Glorious bay, part 2
9 12 2023
I mean, really!
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Glorious bay
8 12 2023
Oh, I do love a rich bay mustang against the glorious white of pristine snow! Madison the beautiful.
(This post refers back to fresh-snow scenery from the last storm. I have this one and another that I’d like to share before the next snowstorm hits Disappointment Valley!)
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Shadow drinker
7 12 2023
Shadow approaches the running stream that is Spring Creek for a drink.
With daytime temperatures at or slightly above 50 degrees, there’s liquid water for the horses to drink from shady-spot snow still melting.
Love her natural (probably greasewood) mane adornments!
(Although this is down in the Spring Creek arroyo, you can see the lack of snow, which is the current land condition. There are still infrequent patches of snow in the north-facing and/or shady areas, but mostly, the basin is free of snow, though still damp to muddy in most places. We have snow in the forecast for Friday.)
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Categories : Spring Creek, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Down low
6 12 2023
While standing on the lower side of a little hillock, waiting for horses to appear from the other side, with McKenna Peak and Temple Butte in the background, Skywalker sauntered by at about eye level.
Hi, big guy!
Love his snowy muzzle. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Feelin’ frisky
5 12 2023
Who *doesn’t* feel frisky with a couple of inches of fresh snow on the ground and warm sunshine on your fuzzy coat!? Odin is full of spunk. 🙂
(The snow is mostly melted into the needy soil again, but you won’t blame me for sharing more pix from the day we had a snowclad basin during the next few days.)
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 