WET AND WILD

Yesterday morning I was standing on the canal bridge 

near our house.  You can see the blue roof of our porch in the upper left.

This was the view from the south side of the bridge.  

The canal provides passage for irrigation water from the river 

to farmland on the other side of town.

On the north side of the bridge debris was being cleared 

to make way for the spring filling of the canal.

The water flows under the bridge…

…and on its way to give a drink to potato and hay fields when the weather
 doesn’t cooperate.  Once again our neighbors can tease us
about having waterfront property.

As I walked passed the golf course I could see what I thought 

was a dog running down the fairway.

Nope.  A coyote on the way home from a night of hunting.

I’m guessing it is a momma on her way back 

to feed a den of babies somewhere near the river.

She wasn’t slowed down by the sand trap.

On my way back home I noticed the canal was almost full.

It’s a good thing.

There are a lot of dirty birds in the neighborhood.