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Anne has an amazing picture of a Yellowstone wolf up on her blog. Which reminds me…
Anne’s a much better photographer than I am, so I’m not really posting out of competitiveness. I’m just taking her photo as a reminder of an encounter with a hungry Joshua Tree coyote.
It was Valentine’s Day, 2001, and my sweethearts and I were taking a winter vacation down in the desert. Becky and Zeke sat on a rock, drinking some water and looking out at the world, and I stared off into the distance trying to figure out why the crow in the Joshua tree a couple dozen yards away was barking at us.
Then came the yipping, and a handful of vague contours behind the blackbrush suddenly resolved into a hidden coyote. We were in her way. She was torn between shy startlement at seeing people far away from the roads where they usually hung out, and a desire to ask us for peanut butter sandwiches. (Joshua tree coyotes are notorious beggars.)
As the sky darkened with a February rainstorm, she came out from behind the scrub.
Later, we saw her by the side of the road in traditional mendicant pose. I rolled down the rear window, and Zeke stuck his head out to investigate. Nothing much happened. We shot a few more photos, and I drove away.
Posted by: Chris Clarke
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