Wild horses - If you look closely you'll see the tops of fence posts just beyond these fighting stallions. Miles of this barbwire fence was put in place to keep the horses out while the area on the other side recovers from a huge grass fire in 2017.

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RUNNIN' WITH THE BIG BOYS

The trick is growing up without growing old. - Casey Stengel

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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. - Virginia Woolf

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BIG-HEADED

Bison hunting started on Antelope Island, in the Great Salt Lake, in 1896 and continued as a frequent activity until 1926 when the Big Buffalo Hunt eliminated all but a few of the bison. Thereafter, public sentiment changed during the 1920's and activists began to call for the protection of the herd on the island.

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WITH AGE COMES WISDOM

Candid taken at a Native American Pow Wow.

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WINDBLOWN

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. - William Arthur Ward

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SIX GEESE A FLYING

If you are in a beautiful place where you can enjoy sunrise and sunset, then you are living like a lord. - Nathan Phillips

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Distant valley

"Wherever man has left his footprints in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization, we find the hoofprint of a horse beside it." ~ John Trotwood Moore

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TWISTED IN TIME

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. -
Rodney Dangerfield

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Chin fuzz

"The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears." ~ Arabian Proverb

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Don't fence me in.

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If storks deliver babies why can't pelicans deliver for Amazon.

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"Horses change lives. They give our young people confidence and self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls. They give us hope!" ~ Toni Robinson

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STALKING THE SHORELINE

It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great blue herons, the bald eagles, the salmon, that we are sorry. - Brenda Peterson

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WIN, PLACE, AND SHOW

“A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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There is beauty to be found in barron land.

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. - William Shakespeare

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Pronghorn Antelope on the run.

As a member of the super-family Giraffoidea, the pronghorn's closest living relatives are the giraffes and okapi. - Wikipedia

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HORSE HICKEY - Wild horses

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse. - Ronald Reagan

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Layer-cake

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.. - M. Emmet Walsh

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Wild horses - The stallions get very possessive when another tries to move in on his mares.

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Pathway Across the Valley

“Don't look around for the path you are meant to follow, forge it yourself.” ― Toni Sorenson

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GET TO KNOW A GOOD BACK SURGEON

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RUNWAY

Lewis and Clark provided the first written description of the Tundra Swan during their expedition to the West, where the birds’ whistle-like calls prompted Meriwether Lewis to dub them “whistling swans.”

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Horses make a landscape look beautiful. - Alice Walker

Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem. - William Hamilton Gibson

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I served in the U.S. Navy. This mallard reminds me of a Phantom jet preparing to land on an aircraft carrier at sea.

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Bookends

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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By the Beaver Dam

“December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory...” ― John Geddes

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A Good Tongue Wagging

If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway? - Will Rogers

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Winter Storm in Wallsburg Valley

“For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive. - Rilke”

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Last Glimpse of Daylight

“That night she dreamed of the deer. Strangely, the animal was holding her. She cuddled close into the soft fur and touched and kissed it gently. In the morning her pillow was wet with tears.” ― Julie Andrews Edwards

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THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. - Golda Meir

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GET OUTTA MY FACE - Wild stallions

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. - Sun Tzu

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BUGLE CALL

Hearing the bugling bull elk means being there before sunrise.

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SHEARED

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. - Thomas Fuller

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PRONGHORN ANTELOPE WITH AN ESPECIALLY NICE RACK

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If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then, I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection. - Peter Lindbergh

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As we look into our past can the mistakes we've made be corrected? No, but they can enable us to find better answers for the future.

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A MOST UNCOMFORTABLE POSITION TO BE IN

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WYOMING MOON SET

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” ― Mark Twain

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MARES AND THEIR FOALS

There is just as much horse sense as ever, but the horses have most of it. ~ Anonymous

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A MAGICAL PLACE TO DREAM

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COTTON BALLS

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds. - Mike Tyson

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A Crow in the Snow

“Don't eat crow unless it's served up with a side order of humiliation.”
― Anthony T.Hincks

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AFTER THE STORM - LAMAR VALLEY NORTHERN YELLOWSTONE

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. - Josephine Hart

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We're wild horses. We're going to eat your food, knock down your tent and poop on your shoes. We're protected by federal law, just like Richard Nixon. - Dave Barry

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OCEAN OF SAND

And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.
= Pierre Loti

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LANDING GEARS DOWN

Snow Geese at Gunnison Reservoir - Central Utah

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Search from Above - looking for food around the Great Salt Lake wetlands

Flight without feathers is not easy. - Plautus

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