After a fun filled weekend at Virginia Tech, Bill and I didn’t get our Sunday run in until late this afternoon. It was humid, but clouds covered the sun and there was a decent breeze, so it wasn’t too bad. I usually don’t do well on afternoon runs, but we ended up running our ten miles in just under 1:30, so I can’t complain!
We ran on the W&OD Trail heading east and turned around five miles out. After about the first two miles I felt really good and it was nice have Bill pushing me more than I would have on my own. Since it’s so beautiful this time of year, I thought I’d share some of our sights…
There was a snake on the bridge and I got a really good picture of him, but it was kind of gross so I decided to skip sharing it. It looked like he had been attacked by an animal or hawk and he was a little beaten up on his neck area. He seemed fine otherwise. About a mile earlier another black rat snake was on the trail, but he slithered off as I ran up to him, ready to take his picture. So sadly, you will not get to look at any snake pictures today.
This pretty creek is Broad Run, one of the many small water tributaries that the W&OD Trail crosses.
I”m pretty sure these are blackberry blooms, because during the summer I see blackberries along this area of the trail.
We were pretty excited to see these wild turkeys. I see them often at my parents’ house, but this is the first time I’ve ever seen any around here! Gobble, gobble!
The daisies are blooming…
And so are the black locust trees… If only I could share the delicious scent of these with you! Black locust blooms have always been my favorite floral fragrance!
Honeysuckle just might be my second favorite scent!
- Questions:
- Are you a snake lover, hater, or somewhere in between?
- What’s your favorite flower fragrance?
- Did you push yourself on today’s run?
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I love smelling lilac bushes.
Today was a much-needed rest day!
Glad your run was wonderful 🙂
Aw, yes, lilacs… another very nice scent!
Yay for rest days! 🙂
Was that the VA Tech mascot?? You have the prettiest runs. Do you make your hubs stop to capture all that beautiful nature around you?
I hold my camera in my hand the entire run, and can usually stop and take the picture in just a few seconds. I spend a lot of time sprinting to catch up after I take a picture, but often Bill notices that I’ve fallen back and he will stop and wait for me.
I think I love seeing the wild turkeys because it makes me conjure up an image of a big gobbler strutting back and forth along-side the football field back in the late 1800’s!
Sorry to have missed that run. It sounded wonderful. Mine was a lot shorter and very lonely.
We missed you! 🙁
Funny you should mention black snakes on the W&OD. I was running there once when I was in college and came across a huge black snake in the process of crossing the trail. His head was in the brush to my right and his tail had not come out of the brush on the left yet. He must have been a good 6 feet long at least. I was somewhere between the 10 mile marker and Vienna.
We always used to stop and eat the nectar from honeysuckle when I was a kid 🙂
These guys were big, but not that big! Wow!