See ’em?
This was the morning after the storm, low clouds still wreathing McKenna Peak, Temple Butte and the eastern ridges of Spring Creek Basin. The above pic was taken from outside the basin looking in.
At middle-left, on the near hill, see ’em?
Flash and his buddies, just hanging out.
By the “dark” of the hills, you can tell the ground is rain-saturated.
We got rain. 🙂
A lot of rain.
Enough rain to change the contours of the arroyos and drainages and, in some cases, the roads.
How much rain? In at least one place, a bit more than 2 inches, which fell in roughly seven hours.
To give that some context, we got 2 inches of rain between April and late July (!).
This apparently came from Tropical Storm/Depression Harold, which missed my folks in Central Texas and swooped north to the Four Corners area. Harold, we thank ye!
I think it’s also greening up again. Already. 🙂 Wow. We love rain!
Speaking of tenacious (Skywalker, yesterday), Tenaz knows what it takes to keep his band together against all comers.
No matter how many times he gets run off from the main band, Skywalker keeps coming back around. Family can be prickly … but there’s a place for them all. 🙂
Maiku watches the progress of a lone bachelor stallion away from the band he serves as lieutenant. The band was moseying along behind him, more interested in grazing after drinking … seemingly content and trusting that Maiku was on duty.
A storm was sorta kinda trying to build up to the east. It didn’t make it to us, but we’re hoping for similar promising weather this week.
Storm puts some *oomph* behind his assertion that another stallion’s presence isn’t welcome. The other stallion got the message.
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Happy 90th birthday – !!!! – to my good friend Roy, who grew up in Disappointment Valley and still comes to see the mustangs in the spring and in the fall. I think Storm would agree with me that Roy is always welcome, and any friend(s) of his are friends of ours!
“Little” Odin is getting to be a big boy!
And I saw his daddy last night. He’s doing pretty well. 🙂
Baby Bia has always had an affinity for her “auntie” Rowan. With no foal of her own (yet), Rowan is a cross between mentor and playmate to Bia. They shared this sweet moment after they’d had a drink from a rain-filled roadside ditch, while waiting for mama Aiyanna, auntie Dundee and daddy Buckeye to drink their fill.
If Corazon can be said to have a certain swagger in his step, he can be forgiven; he’d just had a chat with a lone bachelor, who didn’t stick around long.
Pretty Terra looks up from grazing to check the whereabouts of her stallion.
Not to worry; he was just across a shallow arroyo, grazing among the pinon and juniper trees.
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 