As I drove to work this morning, I was bemoaning how the sun is rising south of east. (No surprise, there; it’s October.) As a result, the hills on either side of Yucca Valley don’t have as much shadow-highlighted relief as they did back in the summer. (They would, if I had been driving perpendicular to the sun’s light, but I was driving with the sun mostly behind me.) Anyway, I was thinking that it wasn’t as pretty as I’d like, and a coyote darted out onto the road. I didn’t even have to slow down for him. He caught a lizard and managed to keep an eye out for oncoming traffic in each direction, all at the same time. He darted back into a lot full of Joshua Trees and was gone. It’s the first time I’ve seen one in the daylight around here.