Come As You Are

Featured Image for January 2025

"Come As You Are"

This is Midnight

In case you partied a bit too late last night, I wanted to give you an image to welcome in the New Year that says COME AS YOU ARE.  You are welcome here.

Midnight is one of the Lead Mares of a mustang group at Flag Ranch in Paso Robles.  Midnight is one of the first mustangs they adopted from the round-ups at the Devil's Garden reserve in northeastern California, approximately seven years ago.  She was adopted along with her four-month-old colt, whom they named Moon, and another mare and her two-month-old colt. All live at Flag Ranch together, in an intact family group, as they would in the wild. 
Midnight has two brands -- one from the US Forest Service, which rounds up the Devils Garden horses, as that land is managed by the Forest Service; the second is from the BLM, as the horses who aren't adopted right off the Garden (like Flag Ranch horses Olive and Ruby Sage) are transferred to long-term holding governed by the BLM.

This image was taken at Flag Ranch in Paso Robles on October 20th, 2024 at 9:37 a.m., during breakfast. 

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