Water drips from Dundee’s chin while she watches her bandmates heading to water.
It’s so great to get rain. The ground has dried very quickly, but the moisture is always good.
The goodness of water
28 04 2024Comments : 3 Comments »
Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
It’s official
27 04 2024It MUST be spring – the prince’s plume is flowering. 🙂
And the bees also are very happy about that:
And … drum roll, please … WE GOT RAIN LAST NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The first actual rain – and yes, the ground got more-than-damp wet – since April 6. It will put some water in the catchments and give the vegetation a nice, lovely drink of moisture.
*Relief*. 🙂
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, Prince's plume, Wild flowers
Lovely girls
26 04 2024
How lucky was I to be in the right place at the right time as Buckeye’s band and another band converged on their way to drink at Spring Creek canyon? 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Lovely light and a pinto pony
25 04 2024
Wily Chipeta tried her best to skunk me on this pic.
The view and the *light* on the view (McKenna Peak and Temple Butte) was SO pretty that I sat down in a shallow little drainage and waited for the band to mosey their way down the little slope they were on, right through that view.
Chipeta, of course, was the very last, after most everybody had grazed their way through with heads down and semi-hidden by the grass. Just as she went through my viewfinder – and I had to hold the camera vertical to get all the view within the frame – she picked up her pace, and I thought for sure I’d have a blurry mess. … But nope; gotcha, beauty. 🙂
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Caught’cha grazing!
24 04 2024
As I was heading out of Spring Creek Basin the other evening, after the sun had set into a low cloud bank, I came upon Cassidy Rain and her band grazing just below the road. She ignored me until I was inching by her in the Jeep … and then she looked up! Fortunately my camera was still out of its pack, and I lifted and eyeballed and hit the shutter. She didn’t stop chewing while she eyeballed me back, and I got a couple of fairly decent portraits of the muddy girl.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Moonrise over Disappointment
23 04 2024
The mustangs weren’t in cooperative locations for catching the rising moon, so I tried a bit different place. I still caught it a bit later than I’d hoped, but with Temple Butte on the left and Brumley Point on the right, Groundhog Mountain in the background and part of Spring Creek Basin in the middle ground … it worked out all right. 🙂
That’s part of Disappointment Road at lower right.
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Categories : Brumley Point, Disappointment Valley, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte
Nothin’ but blue
22 04 2024
By the time I realized the nearly-full moon was rising, it was well up.
Still gorgeous!
(Not bad for cell-phone pix, eh?)
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Categories : Brumley Point, McKenna Peak, Moon, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte
Moseying into spring
21 04 2024
If drought is measured by snow on the mountains (which it seems to be?), then we’re in great shape!
If drought is measured by the lack of rain, snow or other moisture on the land where drought is being observed (which it should be!), we’re in rough shape.
What Corazon knows is that his family is happy, healthy and intact. All is well with his world. There’s something to be said for not worrying about what’s to (probably) come. 🙂
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Let the stamping begin
20 04 2024
There’s a bit more tail-swirling and -swishing these days as the days get longer and warmer. I’m sorry to say that gnats are making their appearance. In this case, wind is our friend to blow the little buggers away.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Rimrock edge
19 04 2024
You know how, when you’re a kid (some kids … me, for example), the edges of heights don’t bother you? You can stand there, look over, look out, and you’re so confident of your balance, your groundedness to the earth, that you can’t imagine any danger? Then, when you’re an adult (some adults … me, for example), the sight of kids or animals at the edges of great heights gives you the willies, makes the ground under your own feet seem unstable, and you really want who/whatever it is to move away from the edge RIGHT NOW?
See those rocks behind/left of Dundee? They mark the rimrock edge at Spring Creek Basin’s western boundary.
I had walked up the hill where the band was grazing, and though heights bother me a bit more as an adult than they did as a kid, when at the top of the rimrocks, the desire to look over the edge, at the view, is strong. Because … what a view!
The edge of the rimrocks, which form a natural barrier for Spring Creek Basin, is in the near foreground toward the upper right. The road below is the road from the main road in Disappointment Valley to Spring Creek Basin. This view is looking northwestish across Disappointment Valley toward Utah’s La Sal Mountains.
The view looking southwestish. The line of Disappointment Creek is in the far right distance.
And looking more northish.
As for Dundee, she obliged my nervousness so near the edge and headed back down to her friends and Buckeye. Whew. 🙂
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 