Big country

Seven at home on his range.

Grief

Prayers to Oklahoma and all those affected by the devastation. To searchers and survivors, may God speed your efforts and healing.

Still blue

Kwana, 9 months old, still has blue eyes. Here, he’s feasting on scrumptious greasewood with “auntie” Winona behind him. Even with grass all around, they do love the greasewood.

Spring in his step

Chrome on a windy, hazy, dusty day. Note the blooming cactus in the bottom right corner.

The claret cup cacti are starting to bloom in brilliant shades of scarlet.

The prince’s plume has come on in plentiful blooms, right on spring schedule.

She’s a peach

Or an apricot!

But that just doesn’t have the same ring to it for sweet girl Kootenai. Lovely.

Earth and Storm

It sprinkled today, but you’d never know it. Gaia-girl and Storm, along with Cassidy Rain and Roja, were at the Sorrel Flats pond. Walking to the east-pocket pond (to the north) were Seven, Puzzle, Shadow and Tesora. That’s a little change of location for them. There was a lone pronghorn with them when I first saw them, but it didn’t follow them to the pond.

Roja is due to foal in a couple of days, but she doesn’t look imminently due. She lost her foal in 2012, so I’m basing her due date on the approximate time she should have foaled last year.

Some high, thin clouds allowed some light to filter down during the early evening, and it rims the girl in such a lovely way.

And because we can’t forget Miss Cassidy Rain:

She pops up over a little hill, and she gives ME the schnortle! She’ll celebrate her first birthday in early June.

Happy Mother’s Day!

To mamas big and small, two-legged and four- … with gratitude for all you do to love and protect us and keep us safe, and teach us the ways of the world.

XOXO!

Sneaky snake

Grey/Traveler illustrates snaking behavior, in this case, aimed at keeping Houdini grazing where he wanted her.

Spa day

Mama Alegre and daughter Maia (now 1 year old!) a couple of days after Maia’s birthday. They were grazing near the roller-coaster ridge pond – likely where they got their matching spa treatments. Maia looks like big sister Aurora and their daddy Bounce, but where Aurora may stay black like daddy, Maia is going grey like mama – and big brother Whisper.

In other news, the La Sals, starting to look a little ragged in this photo, have a mantle of new white now after some rain in the low country and snow in the high country. It’s a start, and it’s a relief. It IS green. I don’t understand it, but I love it! The moisture will help tremendously.

Overlap

Chipeta, right, watches while Seven grazes with his mares, Puzzle and Shadow, and his stepdaughter, Tesora. Chipeta is Puzzle’s mama; she’s with Ty and their daughter, Seneca, who were out of this shot to the right. Copper also was with them. On this particular evening, their “spaces” overlapped a bit.