Scarlet Buglers

Today was my 11th run at Red Rock Canyon. Seems like it's been many more than that. (shrug) Today was not a long run, but a very hilly one for me, so it was a decent workout. March was my easy does it month which is slowly bleeding over into April it seems with my 'don't wanna go away viral hacky cough'. Anyway, gotta step it up a notch this month. I have got to also get my eating under control. I had a half rack of ribs all to myself tonight. Mmmmm! Gunna miss those puppies after we leave here. Also, Asa had 3 cornbread muffins and 2 small butter containers.

Here are a couple pics from the day.

A pano of RRC looking at the west side.



And some cool moss or fungus on a rock. I should've put something in for scale, to show that the green patches are pretty big.



I ran past an interesting fellow today. This man was older than me, wearing only short black shorts and shoes. He had no water and no socks. White straight, fairly short hair. A big smile. A big guy too, prolly 6-3 or so and was so tan he was like a chunk of leather. Had he had crazy hair, I might have believed I had seen Caballo Blanco! His shoes looked like NB MT101's but they had yellow stitching which makes me think maybe he's testing a proto-type like the wides or something. Strange.

I had a 20oz bottle and two bottles on my waist pack. It was upper 70s today, but there was a good 10mph cool breeze going which really kept things just right. I didn't need my waist bottles at all, but I guess I still think about the first time I ran here and was too glad to have extra liquid.

The desert is still not quite 'springy' yet either. I saw quite a few silk nests filled with caterpillars and a couple of red flowers scattered here and there. I think one is called 'desert paintbrush' and the other a 'scarlet bugler'. The red really pops out even though they are small. Funny little thing too...a white moth was flying in front of me while running for a about fifty yards. The path was narrow with lots of turns, so it just made me laugh to see this guy twisting and turning perfectly like he was leading me around.