Saturday, July 16, 2011

The Fire Continues & Sugar’s Markings

The Las Conchas fire that’s North of us towards the Los Alamos area continues to burn.  Some days from our perspective it seems a little better then the next day it seems just as bad – at least from the smoke we can see.

It’s far and away the biggest fire ever in New Mexico.  It now has burned 240 square miles.

Here are a couple of pictures from the past couple of days.

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To switch gears – we had a good ride with Sugar and Morgunn yesterday.   Sugar has some interesting markings right at her stifles.

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I’ve seen these ‘zebra stripes’ on the legs of horses.  Morgunn has them and they are usually indicative of primitive genes in the horse.  However, I’m not familiar with these kind of markings where they’re located on Sugar.

If anyone knows anything I’ll appreciate your comments.

3 comments:

TjandMark said...

The fire is tragic and the markings weird. No idea about them.

Michelle said...

Did you hear anything about a prescribed fire they did two days ago? Not sure if that is true, but a couple of people told me about it. Really great pics.

You know I know nothing. At all.

Keri said...

Your pictures are amazing, Dan.