Looking back toward New Mexico as we headed toward Arizona.

 Pretty lake in Arizona, near Show Low.

 Osprey at the little lake.  I love to hear their calls.

 We took a drive down our favorite road.  This road is on Apache territory, but visitors are welcome...or not...Somebody didn't like our presence there and drove by us, kicking up rocks and dust.  There are campgrounds and camps on this road, so I don't know what his problem was.

 Beautiful meadows.

One horse and one cow were out in this meadow.

After we left the 3 elk, we continued on the road toward Arizona and Show Low.  Along the way, we saw spots where it had poured earlier that afternoon and we finally hit showers about Alpine, AZ.  We continued and turned on Highway 260 toward Show Low.  This is in the Apache National Forest, which is absolutely breathtaking!  Unfortunately, right after this, we got a call from a neighbor that our black lab, Ripley, had escaped through the front fence and she was a block away!  ACK!  We live only 1 block from an extremely busy street and it has always been my nightmare that she would dig her way out of the front fence and get out, which is what she did.  Fortunately, this neighbor also has a black lab, and he walked her back to our yard, stuffed her through the fence, and covered up her hole.  I called our handyman and he came the next morning and replaced 6 boards on the fence and she was in the yard when we got home, but I spent a sleepless night worrying about her!