Many of my journal posts are situations where I don't move an inch. This is another one of those "no-step" situations where I'm in a fixed spot with a fixed focal-length lens. No images are cropped, no zooming-in or out has occurred in any image in this post.

On my first proper afternoon in McCullough Peaks HMA, I was watching a larger group of horses that was intent on staying put around 1,000 or so feet away. While seated, a pronghorn ran right up to me, but then of course ran away once it realized what was sitting there. Then, I noticed a few of the horses looking intently another direction. Behind me, two horses approached. The first was well ahead of the second, and it made a deliberate turn to me as it neared the other horses. A moment later, the second horse decided to run towards me on a much more direct line. Similar to the first, it started well over a quarter mile away and then moved closer to me at around 50 or so feet. Eventually coming to within 20 feet, it galloped by me and then changed course back to follow the first horse towards the larger group of horses. It was a nice little drive-by. Presumably they just wanted to take a closer look at me. They weren't bothered and weren't inquisitive enough to stop and linger. I would come to realize over the next couple days that these two were outsiders from the larger group that consisted of about 56 individuals. I was a bit discouraged that the larger group showed absolutely no interest in me, but that would change the next morning!