As I promised, next are photos taken of the wild flowers and other interesting things around Anne's ranch in Datil, New Mexico. Anne told me that fall is the time in New Mexico, when the wild flowers really make an appearance. It is such a joy to walk down the road, or even ride down the highways and byways, and see big clumps of yellow sunflowers waving at you, as if to say, "Welcome, friend!"

Because there are so many different kinds of yellow wild flowers around, sometimes only identifiable by the leaves, I have bunched together most of the yellow flowers and call them sunflowers, although in the wildflower books, they have all kinds of names, including...mountain sunflower!!

So here I go. Where I could identify the blossom, I have noted that fact -

INDIAN PAINTBRUSH

LARKSPUR

SUNFLOWERS

"I LOVE THE SUN ANYWHERE IT SHINES"

SKYROCKET/SCARLET GILA

VARIOUS WHITE WILDFLOWERS

DAYFLOWER - PART OF THE SPIDERWORT FAMILY

MEXICAN HAT

MOUNTAIN ANEMONES

MOUNTAIN ASTER

BULL THISTLE

YELLOW DAISY (THAT'S WHAT I CALL THEM)

CACTI

RED GRASSES WITH SUNFLOWERS(Anne told me she has never seen so much red grass until this fall)

THE SLEEPING WALRUS AMONG THE RED GRASS

A GATHERING OF WILDFLOWERS

THE ANCIENT ONES - These formations seen around New Mexico and Arizona have always reminded me of the ancient ones looking down on everyone. These were taken around Anne's place

HANGING ON BY A ROOT!

AN ELEPHANT SITTING ON HIS HAUNCHES TRUMPETING

YOUNG PONDEROSA PINE - beautiful trees, with distinctive reddish bark

WHERE ARE MY BUDS?

WE SURVIVED THE FLASH FLOOD!

AN INTERESTING COMBINATION

HEART OF THE FOREST

OLDEST WILDFLOWER IN THE WOODS (self portrait)

Now for the piece de resitance!

As I was taking pictures along the road, I saw a shadow cross the road. I kept watching and watching, and finally I saw a coyote in the field. He/she kept bobbing up and down, looking around, and then going back and forth in the field.

And so goodbye!

I love you all,
A Hui Hou,
Sally