A face not just mothers love.
Gosh, Tenaz is soooooo handsome!
The look
12 01 2024Comments : 12 Comments »
Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Snowy saunter
11 01 2024
While the band napped, Skywalker foraged in the snow, lookin’ all handsome-like as he moseyed. 🙂
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Well cloaked
10 01 2024
All those rich hues of brown and gold in a “simple” bay coat! Love.
And yummy snow-coated grasses!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Frosty
9 01 2024
Fresh frosty ice lacing on Chipeta.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
The art of crystal (snow)
8 01 2024Well, we kinda got skunked again on snow – the big, hyped, “inches and inches are coming!” winter-weather-warning snowfall – yesterday, but we do have snow on the ground still from Friday’s surprise event – thank goodness. We got no measurable snow from Sunday, though we did have a couple of brief waves of blowing flakes, and there was snow all around Disappointment Valley.
The following pix are of snow/ice crystals on grass stalks and sagebrush in Spring Creek Basin on Friday.
It was so much more beautiful and magical than I can convey in photos.
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek canyon, Temple Butte
Power of wishful thinking
7 01 2024
If complaining about lack of snow leads to more unforecast snow in the future, I’ll do it!
After Thursday’s bomb, snow-wise, our next big snowfall was supposed to be Sunday (today). Snow Friday night/Saturday morning was NOT in the forecast – until late Friday night. But with no tell-tale blue blobs in the vicinity Friday night, I went to bed thinking it was wrong or wouldn’t amount to anything.
Saturday morning, I woke up to 2 inches of glorious snow! Please, chuckle along with me at the forecasters. As high-tech as weather forecasting is these days, even they don’t always get it right. 🙂
Mother Nature still rules, and as surprises go, this was an awesome one!
I schedule all my posts at least the evening ahead of their publication time, so I don’t always see into the future, either. With any luck – and good forecasting – we’ll be waking up to (more) snow, as has been in the forecast for the past week!
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
That doughnut hole
6 01 2024You’ve heard the phrase “doughnut hole” in weather-related conversation? How one place or another is in a “doughnut hole” of NOT getting weather the surrounding area or region is getting or has gotten?
Disappointment Valley (at least the lower part) got a skiff or less of snow Thursday morning (no measurable liquid). It was gone (melted) before you could even say “doughnut hole.” A friend west of Cortez (south of Disappointment) got 4 inches of snow. A friend right in Durango got 6 inches! Friends in Aztec, New Mexico (northern New Mexico not far south of Durango), got 3.5 inches of snow. … You see where I’m going with this?
Yeah, it’s a thing.
That’s Disappointment Road looking south. This is the afternoon of the morning it snowed – “snowed” – ha.
‘Course, at the same time, we had THIS view (to the east-southeastish). 🙂 (Note the lack of snow.) That could be a definition of “silver lining.” 😉
(Next forecast snowfall: tomorrow!)
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Categories : Brumley Point, Disappointment Valley, McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte
First day
5 01 2024
From the first evening of the first day of the brand-new year.
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Last night
4 01 2024
The last evening of the last day of last year. So peaceful.
(Snow expected today?! We’re so ready!)
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
What a view
3 01 2024
Because of course I had to show ya’ll the very BEST view from the top of the ridge. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 