Howling At The Moon

Can’t have a roadrunner without a coyote! Coyotes are found roaming around my neighborhood and on some nights I can hear them in the open field behind my house. Coyotes howling at the moon are a staple used in artwork representing the southwest. It’s so popular when we see a full moon, Presley gets in her best coyote position and howls at the moon. --- Do you dream of leaving home? Dream about other cityscapes, foreign cultures, different people? Native to the Southwest, I felt a calling to live in other places. Lacking an appreciation for my surroundings I wanted to go ANYWHERE the wind would take me. My dreams to leave and explore sprang to life and I was able to have exciting new adventures. I returned to the Southwest to raise my daughter, where I was raised. A new appreciation born for the Hot Air Balloons that fill our skies every fall, the unique roadrunner racing by to who knows where, the coyotes I can hear from my open window at night, to even the tumble weeds that infiltr