As I’m driving home from the barn today I saw a critter dart across the road in front of me.  At first I thought it was a coyote, but it was too small.  It paused under a stand of piñon trees, laid down, and regarded me.  Then I realized it was a feline.  I stopped the car, rolled down the window and called.  It blinked at me.  That when I realized it was too damn big to be a house cat.  He/she watched and I talked to the big kitty.  Then I got out of the car, and it started to flee.  That’s when I saw the tiny bobbed tail, and my suspicion was confirmed.  It was a bobcat.  I apologized for startling her, got back in the car, and we looked at each other for awhile longer then I went home.  I love living in New Mexico, and out here on my mountaintop.  This is what I saw today.