Washakie in Winter Canvas Print

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It's always a good day when I see my favorite stallion, Washakie, and it's an even better day when I see him looking so well going into winter.

As he's done for the last few winters, Washakie has banded up with a few bachelor stallions, including his nemesis/BFF, Wapiti. Wapiti is the young bay stud who dogged Washakie for two years, and eventually put that big gash in Washakie's left side. That terrible wound eventually healed, but as a consequence, an ailing Washakie was not able to hold onto his band. He lost his three mares in 2017, but not to Wapiti. Since that time, the mares have been with the stallion, Signal, with a defeated Wapiti joining up with his frenemy, Washakie. The relationship between Washakie and Wapiti is one of the most perplexing on the range, but I'm glad they have each other, especially during winter.

I've always loved animals and nature and have been photographing both since I was a little girl in Long Island toting around my Kodak Instamatic. My lifelong love of all things wild and furry led me to relocate from New York to Wyoming to be close to the area's wealth of wildlife. During my first visit to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in 1994, I felt a special connection to the area and was determined to make it my home. I now live outside the East Entrance of Yellowstone National Park in nearby, Wapiti, Wyoming. Since I left my corporate job, I spends most of my days in the company of the wildlife and wild horses that call this area home. Currently, most of my time is devoted to observing and documenting the wild horses of...