This was last night’s very-heavy-moon-just-before-the-actual-full-moon evening. It was so beautiful to spend it with the mustangs in the coolness after the heat of the day started to fall away and the gnats buzzed off for the night.

While the moon was rising in the east … fireworks were starting to spark in the west.

What a glorious evening of sweet wildness under that June mustang moon!

(In the photo above are Baylee, Haven and Luna. Featured below are Baylee, Haven and Iya. Prominent landmarks in the photos: the La Sal Mountains of Utah silhouetted against the sunset sky, and, under the rising moon, Brumley Point, Temple Butte, McKenna Peak and the rimrocks that form the ranch’s eastern boundary with Spring Creek Basin.)