Out for a drive yesterday morning when, out of the corner of my eye, a dog on the hillside.

And then three dogs, and then five.

Coyotes.

They saw me right away and, rather than spook them by getting out of the car, I instead spooked them by trying to shoot out the window.

I never did get a shot of all five of them, or even a decent shot of any one of them, so here are some iffy shots of some of them, and really, in their somewhat fierce and decidedly elegant wildness, don't the subjects utterly transcent the photographer?

Oh, yes.