Submitted by turdferguson1971 last September 9th 2007, 02:09 AM

Lyle stood on the edge of a thousand foot drop. He looked out across the vast expanse of forest below stretching out to the steppes and towards the unseen desert floor hundreds of miles away from where he stood. The early summer sun hid its bright warm face behind a billowy cloud that looked like a giant ant-eater. The cloud-filled sky was azure blue that promised rain to a region that desperately needed the life giving moisture. The trip to the Mogollon Rim in the Arizona high co