"As we were walking on our lonely road

there came, like lightning ripping through the air,

a voice, shot out at us from up ahead:

" I shall be slain by all who find me !" - Then

it rolled past us like thunder dying down

after a sudden bursting of a cloud."

Purgatory, Dante Canto XIV lines 130 - 135

translator Mike Musa

words attributed to Cain

I took this photo of the coyote in our hayfield a few weeks ago. Coyotes

numbers seem to be increasing and there are more and more of them in 

western cities despite the fact they are treated as a pest species and shot

on sight. I can rarely hear them without my hearing aids but they call 

briefly each night and I can often observe when they start by Whateley's 

reaction since he seems to react the most of the three dogs, just a attentive

posture most nights.

Hurray a thunderstorm just started, hopefully it will rain a 

couple of days.  Nothing like a downpour on a tin roof.

"I come home with a chicken or

a rabbit and sit up

singing all night with my friends.

It´s baroque, my life, and

I tell it on the mountain.

I wouldn´t trade it for yours."

from Coyote

                     by William Stafford