Coyote Tracks: "Following Song Dog"
What footprints do you leave behind for those following tomorrow?
A pair of trails, newly blessed with snow, revealing yesterday
Leading away on divergent lines of life, met now by you.
What footprints do you leave behind for those following tomorrow?
I took these photos February 9, 2025. I started my hike just after sunrise and noticed Coyote tracks in the snow. These tracks headed Southeast into a wooded area with paths and greenspace that cuts through the city.
This second set of Coyote tracks headed West and later Southwest in the opposite direction of the other tracks.
I wonder if this was a pair of Coyotes that had passed through the park. Perhaps they had split up and run the boundaries and trails of the park. Maybe they had reunited on the South boundary of the park at a bike path that runs East-West.
English - Korean:
Coyote = 코요테 / Ko-yo-teh
Track (footprint) = 발자국 / bal-jagook (literally “foot” “mark.”)
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Thank you, Neil!
I enjoy Meditations on Nature. Nature is so healing.
I am grateful for your acknowledgement! Sharing love and stewardship to show how we can live together in peace and prosperity has become my mission, to restore soils and souls.
I love coyotes and often can hear them howling at night in the valley behind our house. It's such a magical, spooky sound.