Lucas Canyon Trail

Mr. Trickster at work

Before we started off this morning I watched a Coyote eat a mouse.   Becca and I had seen the dead varmint yesterday on our property.  Mr. Coyote almost sauntered by it, but his sense of smell stopped him  in his tracks.  He picked up the mouse, threw it into his mouth by snapping his head back, and proceeded to chomp it up.  The Trickster's motto:  never pass up a free meal.

Later we did a long hike on the lower Lucas Canyon Trail, a trek we'd never done before.  It was gorgeous, and the weather was perfecto!

The trailhead of the lower Lucas Canyon Trail

I believe these are Penstemon Newmexicanus



Symbiosis



Cutleaf Coneflowers

Slyrocket (aka Scarlet Gilia)

New Mexico Thistle

A good place to eat trail mix

Old Aspens

The intrepid hikers

On top of a huge pine that was uprooted

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The fungus among us

Meadow and mountains

Thistle and Sunflowers

Getting to the root of things

Heading down canyon

One last look back