Fall

Fall is wonderfully here!  The sun sets behind the Oquirrh mountains instead of over the lake (Stansbury Island in mid-summer).  The angle of light even during mid-day is alive and quickens the pulse!
Murph and I went to the refuge this morning with Mom, then to the mountains and back to town.  Here's some mountain and Murphy color that we found today.

Murph is intriguing to watch as we hike.  If it is a place we have been before, he is usually wide open, running and sniffing everywhere.  But, if there is coyote scat around (even in a place he has been before), his tail goes down (he's not an alpha dog) and he stays pretty close to me and checks in with me a lot.  When we've been to Fish Springs Wildlife Refuge, where coyote scat is everywhere on the dikes, he is incredibly watchful - and having had coyotes jump out not far in front of us, I do not blame him!