I Fall

I went hiking last Sunday to Blue Lake, which is spectacular btw.  It is about 10 miles round trip.  This is the longest hike I have done in a while and it was raining most of the time. I got some pretty pics of wildflowers and tested some of my newly acquired plant knowledge.

This little pretty is poisonous.

Monk's Hood

And then the ever lovely state flower of CO.

Columbine

I made it to the lake completely drenched and cold.  

I tend to get a little clumsy on the tail end of a hike and on this particular hike I was talking to a lady.  We were just chatting up a storm.  I turned my head to say something to her and a tree root jumped up, grabbed my foot and slammed me down on my knees.  It was a vicious tree root, full of anger.  There is bruising. I will recover but not without a little whining.  ;)

Get out there and get some bruises, y'all!