A CHANGE IN PLANS

6 INCHES OF SNOW COMING IN AFTER NOON TODAY. THE KIDS WILL BE LET OUT EARLY BECAUSE OF THE STORMS ARRIVAL. SO I HAD ALREADY PLANNED TO BLIP DOWN AT THE RIVER, A SITE THAT I THOUGHT WOULD LOOK CHARMING IF ONLY TAKEN IN SNOW. THEN COMING HOME FROM A FOLLOW UP DENTIST APPOINTMENT, I WAS PASSING BY AN EMPTY HORSE PASTURE AND HAPPENED TO SEE THIS GUY. WHAT IMPRESSED ME THE MOST WAS JUST HOW SMOOTHLY THAT I WAS ABLE TO PULL THE CAR OVER AFTER DRIVING THROUGH A THREE WAY INTERSECTION, AND REACH FOR MY CAMERA, SWITCH TO AUTO, AND CAPTURE THE MOMENT. I KNOW IT SOUNDS SO EASY TO PULL OFF BUT AS A NOVICE SO MUCH IS CAPABLE OF GETTING IN THE WAY. AS FOR THE COYOTE IT WAS THRILLING TO BE ABLE TO SPEND THE TIME WATCHING HIM SNIFFING THE AREA, MAKING HIS MARK AND THEN LIKE A HYENA, SPRINGING ONTO HIS HIND LEGS JUMPING TWICE, AS IF DOING A JIG. I KNOW COYOTES EXIST IN OUR AREA, I OFTEN WILL HEAR THEM HOWLING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD COME EVENING, BUT TO SEE ONE IN THE DAYLIGHT, IS A REAL TREAT.