A symbolic rainbow

Yesterday evening, K and I took a hike in a meadowy area so she could go without her muzzle. The mushrooms that she eats grow in pine forests so I take off the evil muzzle when we're out in the open.

I called her, and I captured this photo. I believe that she'd been grazing on something, probably rose hips which are her favorite non-mushroom wild food at this time of year.

As we finished our hike, a light rain began to fall despite the faint sunshine. This one is for Kodiak, our Sibe friend who is running free.

On the home front, I took a low-odds strategy and set up a wildlife camera next to a boulder where I'd seen rabbit scat. Indeed, I soon captured a photo of the rabbit himself.

Where there are rabbits, there usually are carnivores. It took some patience but eventually the bobcats took an interest in the rabbit's boulder.

And, soon after the second bobcat visit, a coyote checked out the scene. Coyotes used to pass through our land almost every night but they've abandoned all of their old routes for unknown reasons. They still sing nearby almost every night (with R accompanying them in a mournful howl) but they don't trot through our land on predictable paths anymore. Consequently, this is my first coyote photograph in quite a while.

I just finished reading a book called "The Daily Coyote" about a woman who raised a coyote pup from when he was extremely young. It was an interesting book that surprised me in many ways. The author also has a blog where she posts one photo per day of her coyote, Charlie.

Thanks for reading!