photos and rambling about running!

[ilanarama]

I decided that my post yesterday was so boring that I really needed to bring the camera along on my next trail run. Which was this morning. And I saw wildlife! (You know, in addition to the usual spectacular desert scenery, blah blah blah, don't you wish you lived here?)

I came running around a curve on the Meadow Loop (this is in the Horse Gulch trail system, for you locals) and saw an OMGSNAKE sunning itself on the trail. I yelled, "EEEEK!" The snake, however, did not bat an eye, or whatever it is snakes do. (And it did not rattle at me - because it was not that kind of a snake - but if it had, I would have been out of there so fast, you can bet.) In fact, at first I thought that maybe it had been run over by a mountain bike - then I saw it flicker its tongue. So I took some pictures of it until it got annoyed and slithered off.



Other photos from this morning's run:

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[blnchflr]

Yeah, we have vipers and grass snakes, and then we have slow worms, which are lizards, but very snakelike, and extremely pretty and cute, and I see them semi-regularly, and want to pick them up and coo at them, but it'd probably scare them, so I don't :o)